SYDNEY (Reuters) – New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, reported its biggest daily rise in COVID-19 infections since the pandemic began as residents of state capital Sydney face another month under tough curbs to stamp out an outbreak of the Delta variant.
A total of 239 locally acquired cases were detected, up from 177 a day earlier.
Sydney extended a lockdown by four weeks on Wednesday after an already protracted stay-at-home order failed to douse its latest outbreak, that has now topped 2,800 cases.
(Reporting by Renju Jose; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
