The Australian state of New South Wales was placed in a strict, weeklong lockdown Saturday after local health officials recorded the highest number of new COVID-19 cases seen in a single day.
Aug.14 (UPI) — The Australian state of New South Wales was placed in a strict, weeklong lockdown Saturday after local health officials recorded the highest number of new COVID-19 cases seen in a single day. The state’s biggest city, Sydney, already had been under lockdown for two months, but those rules were extended to cover all of New South Wales until Aug.22 under an order issued by Premier Gladys Berejiklian. «This means the whole state is in strict lockdown,» she wrote in a tweet hours after announcing that a daily record of 466 daily cases had been recorded overnight. «Today is the most concerning day of the pandemic that we’ve seen in New South Wales,» Berejiklian told reporters during an update Saturday morning.
