COVID-19 – Australia: Military Called in to Enforce Sydney Lockdown

Australia’s military has been called in to help enforce a COVID-19 lockdown in Sydney. Three hundred troops and thousands of police will be deployed to enforce tougher measures. Restrictions have been tightened in eight coronavirus hotspots. Sydney’s poorest neighborhoods on Friday braced for military enforcement of the city’s toughest and longest lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic as the infection numbers held persistently high five weeks since restrictions began. With the city of 5 million people ordered to stay home amid an outbreak of the highly transmissible Delta variant, authorities outlined even tighter restrictions for the worst affected suburbs, including mandatory…