Asia Today: A lockdown in Sydney, Australia has been extended throughout September and tougher measures to curb the coronavirus’s delta variant were imposed. Elsewhere, New Zealand’s first virus outbreak in 6 months has spread from Auckland to the capital.
Health workers and police officers are seen at a unit block under lockdown in Campsie, southwest of Sydney, Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. A lockdown in Australia's largest city was extended throughout September and tougher measures to curb the coronavirus's delta variant were imposed Friday, including a curfew and a mask mandate outdoors.
New South Wales state, which includes Sydney, reported 642 locally acquired infections in the latest 24-hour period, the fourth consecutive day of tallies exceeding 600.
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