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Non-urgent elective surgery will be suspended in public hospitals in parts of Greater Sydney from Monday, after the state recorded 170 new COVID-19 cases and the NSW premier said she d be fighting for more vaccines for her state.
NSW Health on Friday afternoon said non-urgent elective surgery will be temporarily postponed in hospitals except those in the Illawarra Shoalhaven and Central Coast local health districts, from 2 August.
It said the measure would ensure resources and capacity required for the COVID-19 response were maintained during the current outbreak.
There is enough ICU capacity for all patients, with more than 500 beds available, but NSW Health said it could quadruple those numbers if needed.
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Bryant HevesiDigital Reporter
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A growing number of Sydney families are turning up to hospitals with a COVID-19 infected relative who is not alive but dead .
New South Wales Health Minister Brad Hazzard revealed on Friday there were some Sydneysiders who were staying home despite being critically unwell with the virus. Very sadly, we are seeing more families coming in with a family member who is presenting not alive but dead. That is a terrible situation, he said.
Gladys Berejiklian has admitted she should have locked down Sydney earlier as NSW suffered another 239 cases of Covid-19.
In a press conference on Thursday after the record infection increase, the premier was asked: Will you admit that your strategy has failed, that you have failed? You said the settings were right. That s not true and National Cabinet is going to decide a short, sharp, hard lockdown was the way. Can you see now that you made a mistake there? And the strategy is failing and this death of 1,000 cuts, a little bit of restrictions every day, is not working and you have to come down hard?
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It s a pandemic record for greater Sydney and includes 70 cases in community We have harsher restrictions in place than any other state has ever had, she said
That claim was rubbished online given Victorian, South Australian experiences