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By Jill Gralow SYDNEY (Reuters) - Bilal El-Hayek and friend and volunteer Amer Yassine carry boxes of packaged meals onto the front porch of Darlene, a single mother of seven including three she is fostering. From a distance, El-Hayek, a councillor for the city of Canterbury Bankstown in Sydney s southwest, exchanges a few words with Darlene to check on how she is coping under lockdown. We re just trying to help out as much as possible. It s been a tough, tough situation, said El-Hayek, 34, of his effort to deliver food to vulnerable people in his community during the COVID-19 outbreak. People lost their jobs. People lost their businesses. People have high mortgages. It s pretty devastating out there. Although Australia has avoided the high coronavirus numbers of many other countries, the rapid spread of the Delta variant and a slow vaccine rollout have left the country vulnerable. About three-quarters of New South Wales state s nearly 5,000 active cases come from nine Sydney local gov
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