cases earlier today. police and soldiers will be deployed again on monday to enforce tightened restrictions in the greater sydney area. i'm joined now by paula hancock, in seoul, south korea. paula, you had another serious lockdown reflecting the huge spike? >> reporter: that's right, kim, we heard from the state primer of south wales saying this is a war to try to fight against the variant, this is a concerning day as well, as you say, a record number of new cases there. sydney itself, a city within new south wales has been on lockdown for seven weeks. and saying if that lockdown hasn't happened they would be talking about thousands of cases rather than the hundreds they are talking about. but they are enlisting the military as well to help the