{"id":124192,"date":"2021-12-20T05:12:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T05:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=124192"},"modified":"2021-12-20T05:12:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T05:12:19","slug":"sydney-shrugs-off-covid-spike-resists-calls-to-restore-tough-curbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/sydney-shrugs-off-covid-spike-resists-calls-to-restore-tough-curbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney shrugs off Covid spike, resists calls to restore tough curbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Australian authorities urged a &quot;move away from fear&quot; of the coronavirus on Monday, resisting calls to make masks mandatory indoors and limit the numbers of patrons at\u00a0Sydney\u00a0venues, even as new Covid-19 infections lingered near records.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;The pandemic is not going away and we need to learn to live alongside it,&quot; Dominic Perrottet, premier of the most populous state of New South Wales told reporters in\u00a0Sydney.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australian authorities urged a &quot;move away from fear&quot; of the coronavirus on Monday, resisting calls to make masks mandatory indoors and limit the numbers of patrons at\u00a0Sydney\u00a0venues, even as new Covid-19 infections lingered near records.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the threat from the more transmissible omicron variant, life returned to near normal in\u00a0Sydney\u00a0last week, with almost all tough curbs lifted ahead of Christmas, as vaccination rates rank among the world&#x27;s highest.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There will always be new variants of this virus,&quot; said Dominic Perrottet, premier of the most populous state of New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The pandemic is not going away and we need to learn to live alongside it,&quot; he told reporters in\u00a0Sydney, the state&#x27;s capital. &quot;We need to also move away from fear and move to hope and confidence.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>While omicron&#x27;s rapid spread across Europe forced a lockdown in the Netherlands and could bring tighter measures elsewhere, Australia is pushing to ease curbs despite a predicted surge in infections, hoping inoculations will help keep people out of hospital.<\/p>\n<h2>CNBC Health &amp; Science <\/h2>\n<p>Read CNBC&#x27;s latest global coverage of the Covid pandemic:<\/p>\n<p>&#x27;We&#x27;re heartbroken. We&#x27;re overwhelmed&#x27; \u2014 U.S. hospitals grapple with delta as omicron takes root<\/p>\n<p>Fauci says Covid boosters work against omicron, no need for variant-specific third shot<\/p>\n<p>Omicron &#x27;probably the most significant threat&#x27; since start of pandemic, British health chief says<\/p>\n<p>CDC estimates 13% of all cases in NY and NJ could be omicron infections, Director Walensky says<\/p>\n<p>WHO expects severe omicron cases, warns against treating variant as mild disease<\/p>\n<p>The NFL and NBA lead new Covid outbreaks in sports, spurring fines, restrictions, and delays<\/p>\n<p>More than 90% of those older than 16 have been immunized in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Perrottet hoped the higher vaccination levels would limit the numbers admitted to hospitals, a figure he urged everyone to focus on.<\/p>\n<p>Although experts have called for tough curbs to be reinstated, Perrottet said he was &quot;taking a balanced and proportionate response&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>No new deaths were recorded on Monday, despite the surge in infections, with hospitalization rates far lower than at the peak of the delta wave.<\/p>\n<p>New South Wales reported 2,501 cases, down from the pandemic high of 2,566 on Sunday. The neighboring state of Victoria had 1,302 new infections, up from 1,240.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#x27;s tally of 255,000 infections and 2,146 deaths since the pandemic began is far lower than that of many nations.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/20\/sydney-shrugs-off-covid-spike-resists-calls-to-restore-tough-curbs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian authorities urged a &quot;move away from fear&quot; of the coronavirus on Monday, resisting calls to make masks mandatory indoors and limit the numbers of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sydney shrugs off Covid spike, resists calls to restore tough curbs - Fin2me<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/sydney-shrugs-off-covid-spike-resists-calls-to-restore-tough-curbs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sydney shrugs off Covid spike, resists calls to restore tough curbs - Fin2me\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Australian authorities urged a &quot;move away from fear&quot; 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