Allowance of purchases of foods, medicines and first need products,.
The move of Malvinas Day from 2 April to 31 March 2020,.The "preventive and mandatory social isolation" included the following measures: It was among the strictest measures in the region. It would take effect from 20 March 2020 until 31 March 2020. On 19 March 2020, President Alberto Fernández announced a mandatory lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. Ī few countries and territories did not use the strategy, including Japan, Belarus, Sweden, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tanzania, two states in Brazil and certain United States states.Ĭountries and territories with lockdowns As of October 2021, the city of Melbourne, Australia, and certain cities in Peru and Chile spent the most cumulative days in lockdown over separate periods, although measures varied between these countries. The world's longest continuous lockdown lasting 234 days took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2020. On 24 March 2020, the entire 1.3 billion population of India was ordered to stay at home during its lockdown, making it the largest of the pandemic. īeginning with the first lockdown in China's Hubei province and nationwide in Italy in March, lockdowns continued to be implemented in many countries throughout 20. Schools, universities and colleges have closed either on a nationwide or local basis in 63 countries, affecting approximately 47 percent of the world's student population. In many cases, only essential businesses are allowed to remain open. Some include total movement control while others have enforced restrictions based on time. On Saturday, New Zealand vaccinated more than 2.5 percent of its people as part of a government-led mass vaccination drive.Countries and territories around the world enforced lockdowns of varying stringency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Neighbouring New Zealand, which is also learning to live with COVID-19 by accelerating inoculations, reported 51 new cases on Sunday, 47 of them in the largest city Auckland, which has been in a lockdown since mid-August. Neighbouring New South Wales, which emerged last week from a 100-day lockdown, reported 301 cases and 10 deaths.Įighty percent of the state’s people have been fully vaccinated.
Victoria on Sunday recorded 1,838 new coronavirus cases and seven deaths.
The government is also in discussions with Singapore about reopening travel between the two countries for the fully vaccinated.ĭespite a rise in cases in recent months, Australia’s coronavirus numbers are low compared with many other developed countries, with just over 143,000 cases and 1,530 deaths. More easing, including the reopening of many retailers, will come once 80 percent of eligible Victorians are fully vaccinated – estimated by November 5 at the latest.Īustralia’s health officials also said on Sunday that quarantine-free travel from New Zealand’s South Island, where there is no outbreak, will resume on Wednesday. There will be no travel limits within metropolitan Melbourne, the premier said, though residents of the city will not be able to travel outside the city without permission. Most outdoor venues will be open to up to 50 people, subject to density limits, while indoor venues, including cafes and restaurants will be able to open to 20 people, also subject to density limits.
Gatherings outside will be limited to 15 people. In Victoria, more than 65 percent of people over the age of 16 have had a second dose of a vaccine while 89 percent have had at least one dose.Īndrews said with the lifting of the stay at home order, people will be allowed to have 10 visitors at their homes each day. “We are instead locking people out who have not got vaccinated to protect themselves and protect everybody else.”Īs of the weekend, about 68 percent of eligible Australians have been fully inoculated. “We’re not locking people down any more across the board,” said Andrews. The new strategy makes lockdowns highly unlikely once 80 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. Australia, once a champion of a COVID-zero strategy of managing the pandemic, has been moving towards living with the virus through extensive vaccinations, as the Delta variant has proven too transmissible to suppress.
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