For the unauthorized demonstration, the police hurried with great force in Sydney, arresting several protesters. In some places, protesters broke through the official cordon and threw police bottles at the police. Demonstrators without masks marched in the city center, calling for freedom and “justice”.
The New South Wales Police admitted in a statement People have the right to express their opinions, but he considered that on the move they violated the sanitary rules that were ordered due to the epidemic.
From New South Wales, the country’s most populous state, another record number of 163 new coronavirus infections was reported on Saturday.
Sydney and its suburbs are under construction for four weeks, and residents are only leaving their homes when absolutely necessary.
Thousands of protesters without masks also took to the streets in Melbourne, Victoria. Protesters say the lockdown is not about the virus, but about the government’s desire to put people under complete control. A car show is scheduled to take place in Adelaide, which is also under construction, due to pandemic restrictions.
Immediate closures, rapid contact tracing and adherence to strict community distancing rules have so far helped Australia reduce the number of coronavirus patients compared to other developed countries. More than 32,000 infected people have been registered in the country, of whom 916 have died.
Although a year and a half has passed since the outbreak, more than half of Australia’s population About 13 million people in a country of 25 million people Living under pandemic restrictions, authorities are having a much more difficult time dealing with the more contagious delta variant of the virus.
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