Victoria’s 5 million residents will be allowed to leave home freely and schools will reopen Highly infectious Delta variant took hold in the New South Wales capital of Sydney   CANBERRA/SYDNEY: Australia’s Victoria state said on Tuesday it will end lockdown after curtailing the spread of COVID-19, but neighboring New South Wales faced a four-week extension of restrictions according to media reports after new cases hit a 16-month peak. More than half of Australia’s near