{"id":1123,"date":"2021-09-11T01:57:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T01:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2021-09-11T01:57:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T01:57:08","slug":"sydney-reveals-plan-to-end-months-long-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1123","title":{"rendered":"Sydney reveals plan to end months-long lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>Australia\u2019s biggest city Sydney is likely to ease out of lockdown from next month, provided a vaccination threshold is reached.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The New South Wales (NSW) state capital has been in lockdown since July due to a Delta variant outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The state government released its much-anticipated \u201croadmap to freedom\u201d on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It sets out new freedoms for people once 70% of adults in the state have had two vaccine doses.<\/p>\n<p>NSW recorded over 1,400 new infections on Thursday, another daily record. Its outbreak has claimed 153 lives.<\/p>\n<p>But Premier Gladys Berejiklian has stressed people must adjust to having the virus in the community once a majority of society is vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>She declined to nominate a date for reopening but said it would occur on the first Monday after reaching the 70% target.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 43% of her state\u2019s adults are fully vaccinated and 75% have had a first dose, meaning the threshold is likely to be reached next month.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, shops and restaurants will be able to reopen with customer limits.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Berejiklian did name a date for reopening schools \u2013 25 October.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<strong>BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s biggest city Sydney is likely to ease out of lockdown from next month, provided a vaccination threshold is reached. The New South Wales (NSW) state capital has been in lockdown since July due to a Delta variant outbreak. The state government released its much-anticipated \u201croadmap to freedom\u201d on Thursday. It sets out new freedoms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,222,177],"tags":[224,198,197],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-australia","tag-covid-19","tag-world-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}