By Swati Pandey and Colin Packham SYDNEY - Australia's largest state of New South Wales on Friday urged the federal government to divert vaccine doses to Sydney, the epicentre of a flaring COVID-19 outbreak, raising objections from other states desperate for protection from the virus. Australia is battling a supply shortfall of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine as its COVID-19 inoculation

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Australian states squabble as NSW seeks vaccine priority amid COVID 'emergency'

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has called for a ‘ring of steel’ around Sydney, saying the COVID-19 cases needed to be contained in NSW for the good of the nation.



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Andrews calls for Sydney ‘ring of steel’, rejects NSW vaccine push

By Renju Jose and Jonathan Barrett SYDNEY -Australia's New South Wales state on Friday reported its biggest daily rise in new COVID-19 cases this year, prompting state officials to tighten lockdown measures in Sydney in what they called a "national emergency." State Premier Gladys Berejiklian also flagged the likelihood that stay-home orders for the country's biggest city would be

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NSW recorded 124 new COVID-19 cases and Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned that number would continue to rise on the state's worst day of the current Delta variant outbreak.



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