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In the shopping streets of Merrylands, this Monday morning, it feels like a Sunday ... The fronts of most stores are closed, and the only people in sight are lining up, keeping their distance, in front of the pharmacy and the local dispensary ...
In this district, as in the total in eight agglomerations of western Sydney, the conditions of confinement and the restrictions which apply to the 2 million inhabitants who live there are even more severe than in the rest of the city.
The authorities justify this particular treatment by the fact that it is in this popular and cosmopolitan sector that almost all of the cases of Covid-19 are detected - around 200 per day - after six weeks of confinement.
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Latest news, since Monday, 300 soldiers have been deployed in these neighborhoods to help the police.
An announcement that infuriated Steve Christou, the mayor of Cumberland, which includes Merrylands.
"When the same number of Covid cases
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