Public gatherings in Sydney are now limited to two people and residents will only be allowed to travel 10km from their home. There were 50 new cases of community transmission in the country's most populous state, up from 44 a day earlier, the previous 2021 record high. This brings the outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant to 489 cases. Roughly a quarter of hospitalisations in the Sydney outbreak are people aged 35 and under, an age bracket not yet eligible for vaccinations under the government's programme. Pfizer said the total number of 40 million doses it is contracted to deliver to Australia over 2021 had not changed.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 10, 2021 03:00 UTC