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SYDNEY HAIRDRESSERS, GYMS, cafés and bars reopened to fully vaccinated customers on Monday for the first time in more than 100 days after the city achieved a vaccination benchmark.
Australia’s largest city planned to reopen today after 70% of the New South Wales state population aged 16 and older were fully vaccinated.
By Monday, 73.5% of the target population was fully vaccinated and more than 90% had received at least one dose.
Some businesses opened at midnight due to demand from people impatient to enjoy their freedom.
More pandemic restrictions will be removed at the 80% benchmark, and New South Wales residents will be free to travel overseas for the first time since March last year.
New South Wales reported 496 new infections in the latest 24-hour period and eight Covid-19 deaths.
The infection rate will rise as Sydney residents return to work and become more mobile.
New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet said the infection rate and numbers of Covid-19 patients being admitted to hospitals were lower than modelling had predicted.
“So that’s positive and gives hope and confidence as we open up in a measured way we’re in a very good position to keep people safe,” Perrottet said.
“There’s still restrictions in place. It’s not a free for all. It is opening up in a measured way and if everyone can look after each other and respect each other, we can get people back into work, we can get businesses open, while at the same time keeping people safe.”
While Sydney infections have been trending down in recent weeks, they have yet to peak in Melbourne, Australia’s second-most populous city.
Victoria state, which includes Melbourne, reported 1,612 new infections on Monday and eight deaths.
Sydney’s lockdown began on June 26 and the outbreak of the Delta variant spread from Sydney to Melbourne, which has been locked down since August 5, and the national capital Canberra, which has been locked down since August 12.
Most of the rest of Australia is largely free of Covid-19, although authorities warn that Delta cannot be kept out of any state or territory.
New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory – which includes Canberra and two villages – are the only parts of the country to achieve the 70% benchmark. Canberra will reduce pandemic restrictions on Friday. More than 95% of the target population has had at least one dose and 72.8% are fully vaccinated.
Victoria remains a week or two behind. In Victoria, 85.5% have had a least one vaccine dose and 58.6% are fully vaccinated.
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My life will never be the same after reading this.
Can people PLEASE think of the children!
Just to hijack the top comment here, if there’s one takeaway from this, check out John Greene and his brother Hank.
What they have done in the past 10 years stands up as a shining example of how to use fame for good. Think Bono, but without coming across as obnoxious.
I have absolutely no understanding of what I just read.
Started reading it…gave up and went to comments to see if anyone else felt the same.
I get that Marty but I inferred I was reading about a prize ársehole.
Simples, guy rapes girl, films it, then go “hey, buy I’m a guy, what did you expect?”
When you get the first comment and haven’t a clue what to say
Let Waterford whispers say it for you:
“Journalism Graduate Lands dream job copying and pasting tweets.”
God forbid that an article doesn’t have anything in it to have a snark & rant about eh? That is truly haram and must be resisted at all costs, right? Cops it’s a comments section, there has to be hate here, it’s the law!
That video with the car alarm is amazeballs. The kids today, so talented. Does anybody know where I can get a lobotomy?
How is this news….
This guy is an idiot. Delighted VidCon threw him out, if he doesn’t respect women well then he shouldn’t be at such an event that would have 100s of girls at it
In this case bad guys don’t win and the good guys do
So the cops knew internal affairs was setting them up?
He looks and sounds like a brat
If he thinks couples do stuff like that all the time….he must have some pretty sick friends.
What a legend! Did you see what he did? He tapped something to the sound of an alarm in the background.
That’s pure class.
Ledge. Totes Ledge.
Did someone press the wrong button for this to leak on to the main news section. Put it back in the daily edge where it belongs.
I’v just come on here to say something.
I was told there would be cake.
There is no cake. The cake is a lie.
I’ve just come.
Today’s kids are shite
Why are you writing an article about this. how does this effect the Irish people. this is not news. if I wanted to hear about this I’d go on twitter. up your game journal. come on!
This is teaching my 16 yo daughter that no means no and people need to respect that, if they can’t then they are committing a crime not her. That make it relevant to everybody.
In other news WAR !
is this what all of our news is going to look like in 5 years time I wonder. jesus wept.
So glad I’m not a part of this world of morons & vine “celebrities. Just blocked Cian Twomey from appearing in my FB feed, so filters are all up to date.
I thought it was just me that didn’t like him.
He’s as annoying as it gets. Represents the idiotic selfie generation.
The only thing worse than seeing trivial news stories is seeing people bitching and moaning in the comments about why the publication isn’t publishing some “real news”; all the while free to simply click on something else.
No means no, but 100 no’s and 1 yes means yes.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who read that in an exaggerated Sean Connery voice ;)
I’m glad Im the age I am and don’t need to resort to using “Vine” to seek attention or popularity.
My eyes and brain hurt. I’m going back to bed after reading this garbage
Because the very excellent Hank Green stood up to it and sent an important message about consent. And consequences.
Eh, that should have been a reply to Alison Griffin.
He is 16, yes he was wrong what he did to his girlfriend, but how many other 16 year olds have acted like this. I think it’s messed up that he recorded it, but why is a spoilt brats actions headline news?
Everyone who’s commenting that this is pointless and that they didn’t understand what the article was about, nobody asked or forced you to read it.
Loud noises!!
He’s so hot right now.
I’d say it is his lips that have the huge following.
Another non story from the journal team. Why can’t you post articles of substance about real issues, not just regurgitated Twitter posts?
Because people click on the articles & read them. People like you.
So why are you even reading an article from the journal then? Beat it already & find some journalism that you’re not going to complain about. Simples!
Hahaha I can’t believe I’m seeing Onision on here. Too weird.
that’s 30 seconds of my life that I will never get back…
That’s what she said!
Burn!
If this was a gamergate incident, the comments would be all about why gamergaters are right (they’re not, of course). As it is, the only snark they could find was to the article writer itself. This article explained a hashtag that annoyed people today, I see its value as that.
I never even heard of this guy until now.
Does this not make people feel that they are wasting their lives away being stuck all day watching this?
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