Seven people have died and 1,288 new cases have been confirmed in NSW’s worst day of the current COVID-19 Delta variant outbreak so far.
The deaths recorded were a man in his 80s from south-western Sydney who died at Campbelltown Hospital; a woman in her 80s from south-western Sydney who died at Liverpool Hospital; a man in his 70s from south-western Sydney who also died at Liverpool Hospital – he acquired his infection at the hospital and is the 12th death linked to the hospital outbreak.
A man in his 80s from Sydney’s north died at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital – he acquired COVID-19 at the hospital.
A man in his 50s from south-western Sydney has died at Royal North Shore Hospital; a man in his 80s from south-western Sydney died at St George Hospital; and a woman in her 70s from south-western Sydney passed away in Campbelltown Hospital.
“NSW Health extends its deepest sympathies to their loved ones,” the health authority said in a statement.
“There have been 107 COVID-19 related deaths in NSW since 16 June 2021, and 163 in total since the start of the pandemic.”
There are currently 957 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 160 people in intensive care, 64 of whom require ventilation.
Of the 1,288 locally acquired cases reported to 8pm last night, 445 are from Western Sydney Local Health District (LHD), 387 are from South Western Sydney LHD, 149 are from Sydney LHD, 101 are from South Eastern Sydney LHD, 82 are from Nepean Blue Mountains LHD, 31 are from Northern Sydney LHD, 23 are from Western NSW LHD, 22 are from Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD, seven are from Central Coast LHD, five are from Far West LHD, four are from Hunter New England LHD, 11 are in a correctional centre and 21 cases are yet to be assigned to an LHD.
New sewage detections of the COVID-19 virus have also been revealed.
“NSW Health’s ongoing sewage surveillance program has recently detected fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 at sewage treatment plants across NSW. Fragments were detected in Bega and Cooma in Southern NSW LHD and Bomaderry in Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD.”
“These detections are a concern as there are no known cases in these areas. Everyone in these areas is urged to monitor for the onset of symptoms, and if they appear, to immediately be tested and isolate until a negative result is received,” NSW Health said.
