Two-week lockdown ‘inevitable’ as COVID outruns NSW contact tracers

The decision to thrust Greater Sydney and surrounding regions into lockdown was “inevitable” as New South Wales' contact tracers were being “outrun” by COVID-19, says Australian Medical Association’s Vice President Chris Moy. Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Wollongong and the Central Coast will be subject to stay-at-home orders for two weeks from 6pm on Saturday after recording 29 new local cases overnight. “This decision was inevitable – they (health authorities) were unanimous that this had to happen,” Dr Moy told Sky News. “What we’re dealing with is the Delta variant and this strain is quite a different beast to anything we’ve seen before. “The contact tracers have clearly been overwhelmed and this thing is outrunning them.”