I can answer for Sydney. We had one "major" lockdown, which was still not as strict as most of the worlds lockdowns. Certainly at no point was it stricter than what my parents were experiencing in the UK.
Most shops were still open but had reduced numbers allowed inside. High risk venues like nightclubs and casinos were closed, restaurants went to takeaway only. This was early in 2020 when nobody knew what they were dealing with, really. They were talking about "Keeping numbers down until we can build capacity", but they just found out they were really good at keeping numbers down, and I don't even know what we did with our 2K extra ventilators when we peaked at about 60 patients in hospital in NSW I think.
We switched from a suppression to an elimination strategy and have been mostly normal since then.
One small group of suburbs had a lockdown around Christmas/New Years, but it only affected about 100K people I think and only for a few days.
The model in Australia seems to be to keep community transfer to zero, and if a case is detected, a 3 day lockdown of the suburb/city in question to let Contact Tracing and Testing travel faster than infections.
Most shops were still open but had reduced numbers allowed inside. High risk venues like nightclubs and casinos were closed, restaurants went to takeaway only. This was early in 2020 when nobody knew what they were dealing with, really. They were talking about "Keeping numbers down until we can build capacity", but they just found out they were really good at keeping numbers down, and I don't even know what we did with our 2K extra ventilators when we peaked at about 60 patients in hospital in NSW I think.
We switched from a suppression to an elimination strategy and have been mostly normal since then.
One small group of suburbs had a lockdown around Christmas/New Years, but it only affected about 100K people I think and only for a few days.
The model in Australia seems to be to keep community transfer to zero, and if a case is detected, a 3 day lockdown of the suburb/city in question to let Contact Tracing and Testing travel faster than infections.