New South Wales has seen daily COVID-19 infections more than double in the space of a week as Victorian cases also spike with Friday’s case count topping 2,000.
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Premier Dominic Perrottet also addressed the pressure being placed on frontline workers at testing sites and urged people to only go for a PCR test if they were feeling unwell. There are currently 382 people who have been hospitalised with COVID-19, 53 people in ICU and just one death was reported overnight.Victoria on Friday recorded 2,095 new COVID-19 infections and eight deaths bringing active cases to 15,471.
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