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Covid: Sydney residents urged to stay home amid new outbreak

Australian officials are scrambling to trace the source of the infection, after finding 28 cases across the city's Northern Beaches region.

are scrambling to trace 追跡するために奮闘している

　scramble には「よじ登る、急いでする」などの意味がありますが全て、頑張って何かをするというイメージです。

 

the source of infection 感染源

 

 

Residents now face curbs on travel to the country's other states.

 

face curbs 制限に直面する

　curb とは何かの制限のことです。下に開くグラフの頂点に向かってカーブがありますが、それ以上数値が上がらないようにすることがcurbするということです。

 

 

But in response to Sydney's outbreak, several states have begun reinstating bans or quarantine restrictions on travellers from the Northern Beaches region.

 

begun reinstating 復活させ始めた

 

 

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said he had seen an "avalanche" of complacency in Sydney in recent weeks.

 

avalanche 雪崩

 

comlacency 自己満足

 

 

A steel moveable bridge at the Spit, a large sandbar, connects Sydney's Northern Beaches to central parts of the city. It's a towering symbol of separateness that many locals on the so-called "insular peninsula" appreciate.

 

steel moveable bridge 鉄製の可動橋

 

towering symbol of separateness　分離の偉大な象徴

insular peninsula 島の半島