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Sydney police call for military to enforce lockdown<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
<\/a> <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Issued on: 29\/07\/2021 – 09:36Modified: 29\/07\/2021 – 09:34<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 min Advertising<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sydney (AFP)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police in Australia’s largest city have requested military help to enforce a coronavirus lockdown as infections in Sydney reached a new record Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Commissioner Mick Fuller said New South Wales police had asked for 300 Australian Defence Force personnel to be deployed “to boost its operational footprint”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The city of five million people is in its fifth week of a lockdown that is set to run until the end of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stay-at-home orders have failed to reduce new infections to zero, and compliance has been patchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sydney residents are only allowed to leave their homes for exercise, essential work, medical reasons, and to shop for necessities such as food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But for weeks, parks and beach promenades have been filled with Sydneysiders drinking coffee and chatting with friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police have increasingly been doling out fines to those violating the restrictions and Fuller said those efforts would be stepped up in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last weekend thousands of people gathered in central Sydney to protest against the measures, and further demonstrations have been mooted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police have also requested more powers to shut down businesses that they say are not abiding by rules on social distancing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Thursday state premier Gladys Berejiklian warned that the outbreak — which began mid-June when a driver for an international flight crew contracted the virus — is “likely to get worse”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Officials announced 239 new infections in Sydney, a record for this outbreak, which now totals 2,810 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With under 14 percent of the Australian population vaccinated, many experts have warned that Sydney’s lockdown could run for months more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Supplies of Pfizer-BioNTech shots are low and there has been widespread scepticism about the AstraZeneca jab, slowing the vaccine rollout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Australia’s Medico-Stalinist Police State Intensifies — Troops Called Out to Enforce Lockdown in Sydney Sydney police call for military to enforce lockdown Issued on: 29\/07\/2021 – 09:36Modified: 29\/07\/2021 – 09:34 1 min Advertising Sydney (AFP) Police in Australia’s largest city … Continue reading ![\"Police](\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/a5d02498-f03f-11eb-aa37-005056bf30b7\/w:980\/p:16x9\/a78f0d3ca4818a79a18176fef219189b9fe94e69.webp\")
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