NSW s COVID-19 outbreak has spread out of Greater Sydney into rural areas, prompting a lockdown in the city of Dubbo, the Hunter region, Armidale and Tamworth as well as Byron Bay and surrounding areas.
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller will also ask the Australian Defence Force for an extra 500 troops while the government is in talks with the hospitality industry to allow pubs and bars to reopen as early as September.
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Thousands protest lockdown in Australia; several arrested
Unmasked participants march across Sydney, carrying signs calling for freedom and the truth By Associated Press
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3 Photos A protester, center, is arrested by police at a demonstration at Sydney Town Hall during a World Wide Rally For Freedom anti-lockdown rally in Sydney, Saturday, July 24, 2021. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP) Photo Gallery
SYDNEY Thousands of people took to the streets of Sydney and other Australian cities on Saturday to protest lockdown restrictions amid another surge in cases, and police made several arrests after crowds broke through barriers and threw plastic bottles and plants.