DELTA VARIANT THREAT People wearing face masks walk on a street in the central business district of Sydney on June 25, 2021 as authorities locked down several central areas of Australia’s largest city to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant. AFP PHOTO
DELTA VARIANT THREAT People wearing face masks walk on a street in the central business district of Sydney on June 25, 2021 as authorities locked down several central areas of Australia’s largest city to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant. AFP PHOTO


Sydney, Australia: Central Sydney and its popular eastern beaches around Bondi were ordered into lockdown on Friday as authorities try to contain an expanding outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 in Australia's largest city.

Sixty-five coronavirus cases have been reported so far in the flare-up linked to a limousine driver infected about two weeks ago when he transported an international flight crew from Sydney airport to a quarantine hotel.

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