Vaccines rushed to Sydney as outbreak spirals

So much for the Aus model. In the last two weeks, the so called model nations of South Korea and Aus, have both experienced outbreaks.

they have done a better job than the vast majority.

Hope they will manage to race out the virus.

Ganbare !

Reckless

Great idea....if you've got a few million dollars in the bank.

100s of police rolling out tomorrow to the SW suburbs , mostly ethnic communities, to enforce the lockdown. Some commentators have noted the same thing was not done in other parts of Sydney and question why now to this particular part of Sydney. But police say it is just the way things are in Australia now, Who would have imagined that Australia would turn out this way!

All the so called "successful" countries now struggling a bit. and will continue to do so as all they did was delay the problem. Even vaccines can't fully insulate them from this global illness.

majority of Australians are fine with lockdowns as it shows in their deaths and infection rates, Australia like NZ is at the high end of countries that are doing well. you may scream my freedom. but theres no denying Australia has saved 1000s of lives

RecklessToday  07:29 pm JST

theres no denying Australia has saved 1000s of lives

That's right. A once in a hundred year pandemic. People can stay home for weeks, months or a few years. It is worth it.

Yes, but the government's failure to set up a vaccine distribution supply, and the refusal of a large population (anti-vaxxers!) to get vaccinated caused the need for these lockdowns. Could have and should have not gone this way.As an American I am a little shocked.

there were signs of the outbreak spiraling, with a record increase of 38 new cases in the last 24 hours.

This is a little dramatic isn't it?

noone under 70 with no secondary illness wants the vaccine anyway! People have had a gut full of the hype and scare mongering! Most of the at risk groups have already been vaccinated. Move on and get over it! Enough with the sky is falling trope!

seriously some posters here must be working for the vaccine companies…

"...there was no alternative to elimination..."

What about vaccination?

With a population of more than 5 million, won't Sydney need more than 300,000 vaccinations?

The outbreak has nearly reached 400 cases, and is spreading quickly across the largely unvaccinated city, putting Australia's Covid-zero status at serious risk.

Replace Sydney with Tokyo and then think for a while with population, vaccination rate, variant type, lockdown, testings, contact tracing and you will get a good picture of the accuracy of the numbers. The same variant cannot behave in one city or country differently from other cities or countries. At the difference seems to depend in differences in how a country views a positive case even if it is asymptomatic taking every positive case very serious while another is not worried if the young are infected has it is known they rarely become serious cases. It is like catching a cold and staying home and not passing on to others or having cold and going to working not worried if others contract as you know they will get well. It is meaningless comparing cases between countries as some are following a completely different approach from others.

-We have come so far over these last 18 months.

BS. Appallingly low vaccination levels. Get rid of your government and replace them with more competent people.

I'm so sick of people claiming Australian's don't want the vaccine. As an Australian, living in Australia, i can assure you that the vast majority of us WANT to vaccine. There are a few moronic anti-vaxers and conspiracy theorists that manage to make a heap of noise, but the vast majority of us DO want the vaccine. Unfortunately Australia banked on Astra Zeneca, but then it started causing blood clots, so health experts warned against people under 60 getting Astra, and we have a shortage of Pfizer.... AND the vaccine hasn't even been offered to the population under 40 years old yet. So we are all stuffed. Our government is far too slow with the rollout because of our good record of being 'covid free' and our inability to obtain enough Pfizer. It's a mess. But we DO want to vaccine.