Australia records first local COVID death of 2021 as Delta outbreak surges in Sydney

One death reported; over 5 million people in Sydney and surroundings under lockdown; 52 hospitalized with 15 in intensive care.

Australia, a nation that had largely held the pandemic at arm's length through discipline and geography, found itself at a somber turning point on Sunday when New South Wales recorded its first locally acquired COVID-19 death since December — a woman in her nineties — alongside 77 new infections driven by the Delta variant. More than five million people in and around Sydney remained confined under a lockdown that was meant to expire within days but now seemed certain to stretch further into an uncertain horizon. The Delta variant, more transmissible and less patient than its predecessors, is t

Australia records first local COVID death of 2021 as Delta outbreak surges in Sydney

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