Hundreds of army personnel were seen patrolling on the streets of Sydney to enforce the COVID-19 lockdown as the city enters into its sixth week of lock-down. 

The city has detected more than 3500 cases in less than the last one and a half months. Officials in New South Wales, the state which homes Sydney, have urged residents to stay home and also asked the military for assistance to enforce the restrictions.

 

Some 300 army personnel, who will be unarmed and under police command, will go door to door to ensure people who have tested positive are isolating at their homes.

 The officials in Brisbane, on the other hand, extended the three-day snap lockdown in the city and its neighboring regions.

The lockdown was extended after a steady rise of cases in the region. The state of Queensland, which homes Brisbane, detected 13 locally acquired cases, compared to nine a day before.

Australia is going through nonstop cycles of lockdown as the major cities of the country struggle to contain the highly contagious delta strain of the coronavirus, which has been the dominant train.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has promised lockdowns would be "less likely" once the country inoculates 70% of its population above 16 years, which now stands at 19%. Morrison expects to hit that mark by the end of the year.