Australian Experts Call for Tougher Sydney COVID-19 Lockdown

SYDNEY - A leading epidemiologist and an adviser to the World Health Organization is calling for a nighttime curfew and daily testing for workers to bring Sydney’s COVID-19 outbreak under control. 

With a lockdown not producing the desired results in Australia’s largest city, it’s time to implement even stricter restrictions.  That’s the opinion of professor Mary-Louise McLaws, an epidemiologist from the University of New South Wales. She is also a member of a World Health Organization expert panel on COVID-19.  The state government in New South Wales, of which Sydney is the capital city, has said that higher rates of vaccination, up to 80 percent of the population, are the key to the gradual easing of restrictions.