Unmasked participants marched from Sydney’s Victoria Park to the City Hall in the Central Business District, holding slogans calling for “freedom” and “truth”.

Sydney has a large number of police, including mounted police and riot police, in response to what the authorities say is unauthorized protests. The police arrested 57 people after throwing objects at the police.

At the time of the protest, the number of COVID-19 cases in New South Wales hit a record, with 163 new infections in the past 24 hours.

For the past four weeks, the Greater Sydney area has been under lockdown, and residents can only leave their homes for reasonable reasons.

‘Case over the roof’

“We live in a democratic country, and usually I am of course a person who supports people’s rights to protest… But currently, our case is spreading, and people think it is okay to leave there and possibly approach it to communicate with each other during demonstrations,” the state health minister Brad Hazzard said.

In Melbourne, thousands of protesters without masks chanted “freedom” in the city center. Some of them lit flares when they gathered outside the Victorian State House.

They held banners, one of which read: “This is not about the virus, but about the government’s total control of the people.”

Adelaide is also planning to hold a car protest rally, and Adelaide is also under lockdown. The police warned that they would arrest illegal activities.

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As of Friday, 15.4% of the country’s population of 16 years and older had received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said: “We have turned the corner, we have solved it. We have reached what we need to achieve, and now we are providing one million doses a week.” “We are moving towards We hope to advance towards the goal we have reached before the end of the year, and it may be earlier than that.”

The government said it would ship thousands of additional doses of Pfizer’s BioNTech drug to Sydney in the next week. At the same time, given the scarcity of Pfizer’s supply, adults in Australia’s largest city have also been urged to “strongly consider” AstraZeneca-Oxford.

What happened in tokyo

An Iranian nurse took care of COVID-19 patients at home and contracted the disease himself. He won the gold medal for men’s 10-meter air pistol at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.

At the age of 41, Javad Foroughi participated in his first Olympic Games and became his country’s oldest medalist. He was trained in this activity while working in a hospital in Ilam, Iran.

“I am very happy that I have completed my work on both sides,” Foroughi said through an interpreter. “As a nurse, we are fighting against the new crown virus. It is very difficult. As a shooter, I have put a lot of effort into this moment in the past two years.”

He also set an Olympic record with 244.8 points, leading Serbia’s Damir Mick with 6.9 points. The 2008 gold medalist Chinese player Pang Wei won the bronze medal.

Foroughi contracted COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic and was unable to train for a month. Once he recovered, the suspension of work left him nowhere to be photographed, so he devoted himself to physical and mental training.

He was finally able to train online and compete with other shooters to hone his skills in order to be ready when he resumes face-to-face matches.

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What is happening around the world

According to data from Johns Hopkins University, as of Saturday morning, more than 193.1 million COVID-19 cases have been reported worldwide. Case tracking toolThe reported global death toll exceeds 4.1 million.

exist AsiaThe National Health Commission said on Saturday that as of Friday, more than 1.5 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been vaccinated in mainland China.

A total of 1,524,897,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were vaccinated in 31 provincial-level regions in mainland China and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.

Beijing is advancing the vaccination of minors aged 12 to 17, and many provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have gradually started the vaccination of young people.

Shifang City, Sichuan Province, Southwest China, has begun to provide COVID-19 vaccines to teenagers between 15 and 17 years of age.

exist Europe, 23,947 new cases were reported in Russia on Saturday, and there were 799 deaths from COVID-19.

Russia has always been blamed by the authorities on the surge in cases of the more contagious Delta variant, although some officials have said in recent days that at least in Moscow, cases have begun to decline.