Breaking: A man in his 20s has died of COVID-19 in Sydney, one of two deaths overnight, as NSW recorded 233 new local cases. Follow all today's new live in our blog.
Victoria’s COVID-19 response commander, Jeroen Weimar, is due to address the media shortly.Sydney contact tracers casting ‘wider’ net, NSW CHO claims lockdown is as tight as MelbourneAs NSW Health’s exposure sites continue to be listed up to a week after the date they were attended by a case, Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she is confident in the system.
“The mobility data is showing that we are getting down to what Victoria did in the stage four lockdown,” Dr Chant said, again calling for people to limit their movements.NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has declined to guarantee all Year 12 students will return to school as planned on August 16 in light of persistent high case numbers.
The Premier said vaccination of Year 12s in south-west and western Sydney next week was designed to guarantee they could safely sit their exams, not necessarily a full-time return to school. The Chief Health Officer has also provided some more detail on the apartment building at Campbelltown, in Sydney’s south-west, which has been locked down due to positive cases.“Some of the transmission events clearly occurred between family groups or friends,” she said.
Low detections were also made at the Coffs Harbour and Mudgee plants, providing evidence of the virus in regional areas where recent cases have not been detected.NSW has reported 233 new local cases on Wednesday, its third-highest figure during Sydney’s outbreak. Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said the man was being treated at home by South Western Sydney Local Health District but “suddenly deteriorated”.Premier Gladys Berejiklian said she had two other key matters she wanted to address this morning:
“As one of the country’s largest employers, we fully support all of the efforts being made to vaccinate Australians,” he said.David Estcourt Mr Poulton said restrictions in place in NSW caused many people living in bubble towns close to the Murray to venture south and support Victorian businesses over the last month. But the new rules put in place by the Victorian government prevent people from doing so.
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