More than 4.2 million people aged between 18 and 29 have received coronavirus vaccine in the three weeks since programme began
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Australia’s New South Wales has recorded 30 new cases, authorities have said, as Sydney and its surroundings woke up to the first day of a two-week lockdown imposed to quell an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant.
Sunday numbers, collected before 8pm on Saturday (UTC), take the number of infections linked to the Bondi outbreak to 110 and two other cases remain investigation. Some 52,000 tests were conducted. The state premier Gladys Berejiklian told a news briefing:
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 because we are seeing that people in isolation, unfortunately, would have already transmitted to all their house contacts.
More than 4.2 million people aged between 18 and 29 years in England have received a Covid vaccine in the three weeks since the programme was opened up to those in their 20s, the NHS has said.
By the end of the weekend, health authorities expect to have reached half of all adults in that age bracket.
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