Sydney Covid cases ease

Sydney’s Covid-19 cases rose at the slowest pace in nearly two weeks yesterday, but officials said they needed to see a steady drop in daily cases before deciding whether infections had peaked after 12 weeks in lockdown.

New South Wales state reported 1,127 new local cases, the majority in Sydney, down from 1,257 on Monday. Two deaths were reported. “It’s too early to know if we’re flattening the curve, but we’re seeing, pleasingly so far, that cases haven’t been increasing as fast as they have been,” Jeremy McAnulty, NSW Executive Director of Public Health Response, told reporters.