Australia: in the face of the Delta variant outbreak, the authorities facilitate access to vaccination
The end of the tunnel seems far in Sydney, which is entering its seventh week of confinement this Sunday and where the number of new cases, without having exploded, is not decreasing.
Saeed KHAN AFP / File
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Australia was at the forefront last year in managing the Covid crisis.
But the Delta variant, which appeared about two months ago in Sydney, has plunged the country back into the reality of the pandemic.
The number of new cases is not decreasing in Sydney, which is however entering its seventh week of containment, Melbourne and the state of Victoria are also re-confined, for the sixth time since the start of the pandemic.
The only solution, according to the authorities, is vaccination, access to which is increasingly facilitated.
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With our correspondent in Sydney,
Grégory Plesse
Containment has once again become a reality with which the majority of Australians must once again come to terms, the fault of the Delta variant and a vaccination campaign that started too late.
The end of the tunnel seems far in Sydney, which is entering its seventh week of confinement this Sunday and where the number of new cases, without having exploded, is not decreasing.
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In Melbourne and in the state of Victoria, weariness dominates, its 6 million inhabitants being subjected since Tuesday, and for the sixth time since the start of the pandemic, to a new containment.
A remedy which the authorities are aware that it is increasingly difficult to accept, and who now see vaccination as the only remedy for a return to normal.
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After a sluggish start, their pace is finally accelerating, especially in New South Wales where the milestone of six million doses administered by the end of the month should be reached.
In Melbourne, new vaccinodromes will open tomorrow Monday specifically for those under 40, as well as a vaccination center where you can go without getting out of your car, a first in Australia.
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