Delta variant continues to progress and worries several countries in Oceania | It causes contagion records in Fiji and Australia

The Delta coronavirus variant continues to cause concern around the world. Now his progress in Oceania has started to be reported.

This Monday Fiji reported a record of over 870 cases of coronavirus, in the midst of an epidemic caused by the Delta variant. Also, the virus he continued to advance in Australia despite the fact that Sydney, the capital, is in its third week of confinement.

Coronavirus case in Fiji reached 873 in the last 24 hourssaid the health minister, who also reported three other disease-related deaths during the same period.

The number of infections exceeds that of last Friday, when 860 infections were recorded, which raised alarms in the country, which exceeded 800 daily cases for the first time after two consecutive days with over 700.

Amid the virulent Delta variant outbreak, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama announced last Friday that All public and private employees must be vaccinated in the following months to be able to work.

Fiji, a country of 930,000 people, has accumulated 11,385 cases of coronavirus and 58 deaths since the start of the pandemic, the first case of which was reported in March 2020.

The mutation, which was first identified in India and is more contagious and possibly more deadly, it also circulates in Australia.

The virus continued to spread in Sydney, a city of 5 million people, despite being virtually isolated from the rest of the country for 21 days, authorities said on Monday. A total of 112 new cases have been identified in the past 24 hours in the state of New South Wales, whose capital is Sydney, a record since the start of this wave last month.

Prime Minister Gladys Berejiklian said on Monday that many of the new cases were family members or friends of infected people who had encountered them in violation of instructions against contact outside the home.

The Australian state has recorded 678 infections since the start of this epidemic wave in mid-June, due to the Delta variant.

Although the number of contaminations in Australia is lower than that of the main cities of the world, it is a challenge for the country which had set itself the goal of having zero cases of local transmission.

Sydney people They can only leave their homes to shop for groceries, go to the doctor or play sports outside. The lockdown is due to end on Friday, but authorities have warned it is likely to be extended.

On Saturday, a nonagenarian died in Sydney hours after being diagnosed positive for the novel coronavirus, becoming the first death from local transmission of Covid-19 in Australia so far this year.

Australia, with 25 million inhabitants, has more than 31,000 cases and 911 deaths from the virus.