The Australian authorities imposed a strict general isolation on a quarter of a million people living in coastal suburbs in the north of Sydney today, Saturday until Christmas Eve, in order to contain a focus of the Corona virus, which the authorities fear may spread throughout Australia’s largest city, and the government of New South Wales will announce tomorrow, Sunday, what If other restrictions are to be imposed on the rest of Sydney, which is home to about five million people.
“I want it to be clear, I say to Greater Sydney, please, please, don’t go out tonight or in the next few days unless you really have to,” Gladys Peregiklian, the state’s prime minister, said at a press conference.
The total number of infections has reached 39 so far, and there are two cases under examination, and the number of infections was five only two days ago, and the authorities do not know the origin of the virus, which genome tests indicate that it is an American strain.