{"id":55608,"date":"2021-06-30T08:09:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T22:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=55608"},"modified":"2021-06-30T08:10:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T22:40:01","slug":"more-than-11-million-aussies-are-in-lockdown-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/more-than-11-million-aussies-are-in-lockdown-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 11 Million Aussies Are In Lockdown This Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost half of all Australians are in lockdown as the country battles a wave of the COVID-19 Delta variant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/fiveaa-sports-show-with-rowey-bicks\/roweys-sports-show-podcast-29-june-2021\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Rowey's Sports Show Podcast - 29 June 2021\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to 9 News:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The current crisis began in NSW, where roughly 5.5 million people in Greater Sydney are in lockdown for two weeks as the Bondi cluster nears 150 cases.<\/p><p>The Northern Territory ordered its first lockdown of the pandemic at the weekend, putting about 200,000 people in Darwin under tough restrictions after an outbreak linked to a gold mine.<\/p><p>Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan maintained his unapologetic expeditiousness in putting an estimated 2 million people in Perth and Peel in a four-day lockdown on Monday night after only a third new case.<\/p><p>Queensland&#8217;s lockdown is so wide ranging that it captures about 5 million people, taking the national total in excess of at least 11 million who are being forced to stay home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Delta variant of COVID-19 is proving to be so contagious that leaders are shutting down large portions of their states after only a few cases. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/9News?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#9News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D5UI6iZILN\">https:\/\/t.co\/D5UI6iZILN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 9News Adelaide (@9NewsAdel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/9NewsAdel\/status\/1409991207258783744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>FIVEAA FACEBOOK LIVE STREAM &#8211; WEDNESDAY 30 JUNE &#8211; WATCH HERE:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1395FIVEAA%2Fvideos%2F551940689150068%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost half of all Australians are in lockdown as the country battles a wave of the COVID-19 Delta variant. 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