Authorities in Australia's New South Wales, the epicentre of the country's biggest coronavirus outbreak, said on Monday daily infections were expected to peak next week, as they look to speed up immunisations ahead of easing restrictions.
Australia is trying to contain a third wave of infections that has locked down its two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, and its capital Canberra, putting more than half its 25 million population under strict stay-at-home restrictions.
"I do want to qualify that to say that modelling depends on a number of things, a number of variables ... if too many of us do the wrong thing, there are too many super-spreading events, we could see those numbers higher," Berejiklian said during a media briefing in Sydney, the state capital. Victoria state, which includes Melbourne, reported 246 new cases on Monday, its biggest daily rise of the year.
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