MELBOURNE (REUTERS) - Australia's New South Wales reported 30 new coronavirus cases on Sunday (June 27), the authorities said, as Sydney and its surroundings woke up to the second day of a two-week lockdown imposed to quell an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant.
Sunday numbers, collected before 8pm on Saturday, take the number of infections linked to the Bondi outbreak to 110 and two other cases remain under investigation. Some 52,000 tests were conducted.
"Given how contagious this strain of the virus is, we do anticipate that in the next few days, case numbers are likely to increase beyond what we have seen today because we are seeing that people in isolation, unfortunately, would have already transmitted (the virus) to all their house contacts," state Premier Gladys Berejiklian told a news briefing.
On Saturday, several million of people in Sydney and the regions of Blue Mountains, Central Coast and Wollongong that surround Australia's largest city, were ordered into a lockdown.
Neighbouring Queensland reported on Sunday two locally acquired Covid-19 cases, with the authorities saying both infections were of the Alpha variant, first detected in Britain in September last year.
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