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SYDNEY (Reuters) -The leader of Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state on Wednesday ordered a week-long extension of Sydney’s COVID-19 lockdown, warning new cases are bound to rise as the country’s biggest city grapples with the highly infectious Delta variant.Slideshow ( 2 images )Sydney, home to a fifth of Australia’s 25 million people, was plunged

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) on Monday said the next two days would be “absolutely critical” in deciding whether a two-week anti-coronavirus lockdown in Sydney, set to end on July 9, will have to be extended amid rising Delta variant cases.FILE PHOTO: People at Circular Quay sit at socially distanced tables as the