Live breaking news:'Too little, too late': NSW Premier slammed by lockdown mayor

As more than half a million more Sydneysiders are plunged into even a harsher lockdown, a local mayor has slammed the Premier. 

The Government of NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has been slammed as "bumbling" by a Sydney mayor whose local area has been shunted into even harsher lockdown measures as the city's covid outbreak shows no sign of stopping. 

 

 

Steve Christou, the mayor of Cumberland in Sydney's west, has written to Premier Berejiklian to slam the vaccination rollout in the state calling it "disastrous" and "too little, too late".

Cumberland, along with Blacktown, was one of a further two council areas to be included in stricter lockdown measures bringing it into line with nearby Fairfield, Canterbury-Bankstown and Liverpool LGAs. That was after 136 new cases were recorded in the state in the last 24 hours. 

Meanwhile, NSW has been dealt another blow on Friday after national cabinet didn't even discuss the state's pleas to get more vaccines for the outbreak epicentre. 

News.com.au understands Ms Berejiklian's Plan B, that would have seen existing vaccination appointments with GPs in Sydney cancelled and those vials diverted to people at the centre of the outbreak, was also shot down.  

Instead, more people in NSW will be able to get their first doses of Pfizer. But only by making people wait longer for dose two.