A bushfire over 80 hectares in size burning on Sydney's northern beaches was downgraded from emergency to advice on Saturday by the Rural Fire Service (RFS) of the Australian state of New South Wales.
Police in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) announced that three people sitting in two parked cars were injured in a public place shooting in Greenacre, a suburb in Southwestern Sydney, on Sunday morning, police said.
The unit was then declared a crime scene and a locked garage under the complex was searched.
Victoria recorded 1,504 cases and seven deaths, while total of 384 people are in hospital and 84 in the ICU.
Of the new cases, 1,599 were from New South Wales (NSW), Australia's most populous state and the current epicentre of the pandemic, where the health department also recorded eight deaths.
With the new spike, the country's overall caseload has increased to 69,923, while the deaths stood at 1,076.
The 12 victims were a woman in her 30s and 11 people in their 70s, 80s and 90s, which brought the state's total toll in the latest outbreak to 119, reports Xinhua news agency.
For Victoria, the latest lockdown marks its sixth one, just nine days after its previous 12-day lockdown following an incursion of cases from Sydney in mid-July.
The local council areas in Sydney headed for lockdown are Woollahra, Waverley, Randwick and the City of Sydney
Australia's indigenous people represent a disproportionate 28 percent of the prison inmates despite forming less than 3 per cent of the country's 25 million inhabitants.
