Open this photo in gallery Shops are closed and shoppers absent at a mall in Sydney on Aug.... 13, 2021, as greater Sydney continues a weeks-long COVID-19 lockdown.... But Queensland and Western Australia states flagged they may not stick with the agreement as it was framed when case numbers in Sydney were much lower. Australia has suffered less from the coronavirus pandemic than many other developed countries with about 44, 600 cases and 984 deaths....

Sydney is facing an “ extreme marine heatwave ”, with researchers saying ocean temperatures are approaching record levels for January. Scientists warned warmer sea temperatures – which are tied to the climate crisis – posed risks for natural habitats. Professor Moninya Roughan, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales, said ocean temperatures off Sydney were edging towards an “ all-time high ” since records began 80 years ago. Satellite images from Australia’s Bureau of Meterology s

Despite two months of lockdowns in Sydney, the state of New South Wales( NSW) reported 919 new cases amid a growing Delta variant outbreak, taking Australia's daily case numbers to a new pandemic high just below 1, 000.... New infections in Greater Sydney reached 838, soaring past Sunday's record of 830 cases for the whole state.... Around 85 percent of the state's total infections lie in Sydney and its surrounding suburbs....

SYDNEY( Reuters)-Bilal El-Hayek and friend and volunteer Amer Yassine carry boxes of packaged meals onto the front porch of Darlene, a single mother of seven including three she is fostering.... From a distance, El-Hayek, a councillor for the city of Canterbury Bankstown in Sydney's southwest, exchanges a few words with Darlene to check on how she is coping under lockdown.... It's been a tough, tough situation," said El-Hayek, 34, of his effort to deliver food to vulnerable people in his commu

media captionHow does Sydney feel about the Covid lockdown?... It has now been extended to 16 July.... A lack of supplies, specifically of the Pfizer vaccine, means many Australians will not be able to get a jab until the final months of the year....

28, but the spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant continues to grow.“ It only takes a handful of people, or a small percentage, to do the wrong thing, to cause a setback for all of us.... We can’t afford setbacks, ” state Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters in Sydney. Most new locally acquired cases were detected in Sydney, with at least 66 having spent time in the community while infectious.... Fifty-four are in intensive care, 22 of whom require ventilation....

By Renju Jose4 Min ReadSYDNEY( Reuters)-Australia’s new daily cases of COVID-19 topped 1, 000 on Thursday for the first time since the global pandemic began, as two major hospitals in Sydney set up emergency outdoor tents to help deal with a rise in patients. Slideshow( 2 images) Sydney, the country’s largest city and the epicentre of the current outbreak, is struggling to stamp out a surge in the fast-spreading Delta variant, with daily infections hitting record levels even after two months und

A church in Sydney has been criticised for flouting the city’s Covid-19 lockdown by holding a service for 60 people in which a pastor declared that “ lockdowns are over in the name of Jesus ”.... His TV channel LoveWorld Incorporated has twice been sanctioned by British broadcasting regulator Ofcom for airing “ potentially harmful conspiracy theories ”.... We expect them to do the right thing, and that really is sending a bad message to all the people of western Sydney in terms of the challeng

( Reuters)-Sydney, Australia's most populous city, braced for more rain on Sunday after being drenched by heavy downpours over the past week, as the death toll from flooding across the eastern part of the country reached 17.A wild weather system that dumped more than a year's worth of rainfall over a week in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales( NSW) brought widespread destruction, leaving thousands of people in the states displaced and sweeping away property, livestock and roads. Se

There was a heavy police presence, including mounted police and riot officers, in response to what authorities said was unauthorised protest activity. Police arrested 57 people, with more under investigation, after crowds broke through barriers and threw plastic bottles and plants.... That figure is being closely watched as the state considers whether to extend the lockdown, which is due to end on 30 July. Anti-lockdown protesters march in Melbourne on Saturday( EPA) Meanwhile, in Melbourne, th