China has rolled out mass testing as the country faces its most widespread outbreak in months while soldiers have been deployed to the streets of Sydney as the city struggles to contain its own surge in cases
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Meanwhile in Sydney, 300 soldiers, unarmed and under police command, have begun door-to-door visits to ensure people who have tested positive are isolating at their homes, as Australia’s biggest city enters its sixth week of lockdown, Reuters reports.
Army personnel also accompanied police officers around the streets of the areas of Sydney were most Covid-19 cases have been recorded. Footage published online showed police asking the few people encountered on the street as to why they were out of their homes in the largely deserted streets in Sydney’s south west.
For some more upbeat news, Sheldon Chanel has written this lovely op-ed about how Fiji’s gold medal in the rugby sevens in Tokyo couldn’t have come at a better time:
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