Australia Covid live update: Gladys Berejiklian to announce one-week Sydney lockdown extension

The experience of Victoria and New South Wales is like chalk and cheese.

If you want to talk about the length of lockdown. In Victoria, it’s been more than 150 days, and it’s been less than 50 days across parts of New South Wales …

Kids have been kicked out of school in Victoria for more than 21 weeks, whereas just 29 days in New South Wales.

So there have been very significant differences between the experience in Melbourne, and the experience in Sydney, and I think that reflects differences in the way the outbreaks occurred.

[In Melbourne] the major lockdown, was the quarantine failure, and then the state government had a review and the review found that no one had made a decision, quite bizarrely.

But in terms of what has recently happened in New South Wales, obviously, this is a result of the most recent Delta variant* which is more contagious. But if any state premier has shown their ability to get on top of this virus quickly, even when there are outbreaks, is that as Berejiklian, so I’ll back and her ability and his state’s ability to get on top of this virus, although it is more contagious.