NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says the government is 'throwing everything' it has at stemming its COVID-19 outbreak after recording 98 new cases.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the government is "throwing everything" it has at stemming its COVID-19 outbreak after the state recorded 98 new cases.
Greater Sydney has woken up to its second day of enhanced stay-at-home measures introduced at the weekend. Countless businesses not considered an essential service have boarded up and about 750,000 people in Sydney's south-west suburbs are locked in their local government area .LIVE UPDATES: Read our blog for the latest news on the COVID-19 pandemic."We need to get ahead of that number in order to reduce the cases in the community and the closer we get that number to zero, the sooner we can end the lockdown.""We know the Delta variant is nothing like we have seen," she said.
"We know how challenging it is but we wouldn't have thrown everything at it if we didn't have a chance of quashing it." Chief health officer Kerry Chant said the number of venues of concern — sites visited by infected people — has shrunk.
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