Downtown Sydney, Bondi head for lockdown as Delta infections spike

Sydneysiders queue outside a vaccination centre in Sydney as residents were largely banned from leaving the city to stop a growing outbreak of the highly contagious Delta Covid-19 variant spreading to other regions.

* NSW reports biggest rise in cases in outbreak * Lockdown for a week from midnight Friday * New health alerts for venues scattered across Sydney * Australian doctors call for Sydney-wide lockdown   Downtown Sydney and the city's eastern suburbs, which include Bondi Beach, will go into a one week lockdown from midnight Friday as authorities struggle to contain a spike in the highly contagious Delta Covid-19 virus variant in the city. The Australian Medical Association (AMA), which represents doctors, said the move was not enough and called for a complete lockdown of the country's biggest city to prevent the virus spreading and causing possible deaths.