Qantas furloughs 2,500 staff amid lockdowns in Australian cities

A jogger runs past the Sydney Opera House at dawn (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australia’s Qantas Group says it expects Sydney’s Covid-19 lockdown to last for at least another two months and it will furlough 2,500 staff due to an associated downturn in domestic flights.

Sydney and Brisbane, Australia’s biggest and third-biggest cities respectively, are in lockdown due to growing clusters of the Delta variant.