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Coronavirus

Australia's Sydney and Darwin in COVID-19 lockdowns

The country confronts an increasing number of small outbreaks

Thirty new infections of Delta variant reported by Sydney on Sunday took the number of Delta variant cases linked to a cluster in the Bondi neighborhood to 110.   © Reuters

MELBOURNE (Reuters) -- Sydney began a two-week lockdown on Sunday as a cluster of cases of the highly infectious coronavirus Delta variant rose to 110 in Australia's largest city, while an outbreak in the northern city of Darwin prompted a hard two-day stay-at-home order.

"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," News South Wales state Premier Gladys Berejiklian told a news briefing in Sydney.

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