Aussie States Plan To Open Up As Covid-19 Cases Drop, More Get Jabs
The New Paper|October 07, 2021
A nurse demonstrating a Covid-19 test at a drive-through facility set up in a shopping centre carpark in Sydney, Australia, yesterday.
Aussie States Plan To Open Up As Covid-19 Cases Drop, More Get Jabs

SYDNEY Daily Covid-19 cases in Australia’s Victoria and New South Wales states, the epicentres of the country’s worst virus outbreak, fell yesterday as the authorities look to start easing tough restrictions, with a rise in vaccination rates.

A total of 1,420 new locally acquired cases were reported in Victoria, most of them in the state capital Melbourne, down from a record 1,763 on Tuesday. Eleven new deaths were registered, the state’s highest daily number in the current outbreak.

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