As COVID-19 cases surge across the country, new data shows the number of deaths recorded in NSW increased by almost half in the space of seven days.
Deaths from COVID-19 in NSW increased by 50 per cent last week compared with the week before, new data shows.
Cases have surged to more than 12,000 a day this week, more than double the number reported in mid-June.About 20 per cent of the deaths were in people who had received four doses of vaccine. People with more doses of vaccine were older and therefore in much higher COVID death risk groups, she said. Lab head Amy Chung from the Doherty Institute in Melbourne told the second Australasian COVID-19 conference that protection from vaccination was longer lasting than from infection.
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