Sydneysiders wait in a queue outside a Covid-19 vaccination centre in the Homebush suburb of Sydney on July 7, 2021, as the city extends a coronavirus lockdown for at least another week. AFP PHOTO
Sydneysiders wait in a queue outside a Covid-19 vaccination centre in the Homebush suburb of Sydney on July 7, 2021, as the city extends a coronavirus lockdown for at least another week. AFP PHOTO


SYDNEY: More than 5 million residents of this Australian capital will spend at least another week under coronavirus lockdown, authorities said on Wednesday, after detecting another 27 new cases.

Stay-at-home orders have already been in place in the country's biggest city for two weeks as authorities try to curb an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant.

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