Covid-19 pandemic: Army patrols in Sydney streets; China cases surge

Australian officials on Monday extended a snap three-day lockdown in the city of Brisbane and some neighbouring regions while hundreds of army personnel began patrolling Sydney to help enforce Covid-19 lockdown rules.
 
Sydney, Australia’s largest city, is into its sixth week of a lockdown as it struggles with a spike in infections that added nearly 3,500 cases since the first one was detected in a limousine driver who transported overseas airline crew.
 
China, Germany, and Iran, too, reported increasing caseload; the number of deaths rose in Indonesia and Russia.
 
China is confronting its broadest coronavirus outbreak since