NSW records 1,218 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours to 8:00pm yesterday — a new daily record for the state.
NSW recorded 1,218 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours to 8:00pm yesterday.
It is a new daily record for the state, and the largest number ever recorded by an Australian jurisdiction in a 24-hour period.NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said in the past week, 834,000 people had received a vaccine dose.Thirty-five per cent of adults in NSW are now fully vaccinated — halfway to the state's 70 per cent target for opening up.
There are 31 COVID-19 cases in Sydney's Parklea Correctional Centre, which has now been locked down to avoid inmate movement. The ABC understands the inmates who were in the main section of the correctional centre, and not new arrivals in custody.One man in his 80s died at Concord Hospital after acquiring the infection at the Wyoming Aged Care facility in Sydney's inner west. The man's death is the fifth linked to the facility.
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