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NSW has reported 177 new local COVID-19 cases, a record daily case total for Sydney’s outbreak, and another person has died, the 11th death during the outbreak.
NSW Health confirmed a woman in her 90s died at Liverpool Hospital on Tuesday. NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said it was not related to the cluster at Liverpool Hospital. The woman was not vaccinated and tested positive on July 24.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian at Wednesday’s press conference.
Credit:Nick Moir
“It was fairly obvious, given the way the numbers were going in the last few days, it would have not been possible for us to get out of lockdown tomorrow or Friday,” the Premier said on Wednesday.
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NSW has reported 177 new local COVID-19 cases, a record daily case total for Sydney’s outbreak, and another person has died, the 11th death during the outbreak.
NSW Health confirmed a woman in her 90s died at Liverpool Hospital on Tuesday. NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said it was not related to the cluster at Liverpool Hospital. The woman was not vaccinated and tested positive on July 24.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian at Wednesday’s press conference.
Credit:Nick Moir
“It was fairly obvious, given the way the numbers were going in the last few days, it would have not been possible for us to get out of lockdown tomorrow or Friday,” the Premier said on Wednesday.
New restrictions in place for the next four weeks include limiting shopping to a 10-kilometre radius from a person’s place of residence if the item is available locally. Non-essential workers in the local government areas of Parramatta, Campbelltown and Georges River will not be allowed to leave their areas for work from midnight on Wednesday, bringing the number of western and southern Sydney councils under that restriction to eight. The source of infection of 103 of the cases is under investigation. At least 68 cases were in the community while infectious, including 46 who were infectious in the community for all of their infectious period.