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It has now been one month since a COVID-19 infection was reported in a limousine driver from the eastern suburbs, starting a virus outbreak that has forced Australia’s two largest cities to spend this weekend in lockdown as case numbers escalate.
More than 1000 cases have now been recorded across Greater Sydney, as the focus of spread shifted from the east to the south-west. Here are eight graphs that explain how things have progressed over the past four weeks.
Numbers increased from east to west
These two maps show that cases have shifted from Sydney’s eastern suburbs (driven by exposures at retail and hospitality venues) to the south-west (driven by exposures at essential workplaces and through family networks) over the past month. The most rapid increase has been seen in the Fairfield local government area, where 294 cases were recorded over the past week after just 25 were acquired in the previous three.
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