NSW Health has reported another 283 COVID cases over the past 24 hours to go alongside the 319 recorded on Saturday and the 262 recorded on Sunday:
NSW recorded 283 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.
One hundred and six cases were in isolation throughout their infectious period and 42 were in isolation for part of their infectious period. pic.twitter.com/fvZUnwpJ4F
— NSW Health (@NSWHealth) August 9, 2021
106 cases were in isolation throughout their infectious period and 42 were in isolation for part of their infectious period.
64 cases were infectious in the community and the isolation status of 71 remains under investigation.
A woman in her 90s died from the virus, taking total deaths this outbreak to 29.
There are currently 349 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 67 people in intensive care, 29 of whom require ventilation.
The next chart plots NSW’s current outbreak against Victoria’s Winter-Spring outbreak in 2020, which resulted in Melbourne being shut down for 14 weeks:
Australia’s two biggest COVID outbreaks compared.
Interestingly, both states recorded their highest daily case count at roughly the same number of days; although NSW could still obviously go higher.
There are currently more than 4600 active COVID cases in NSW:
Yet to peak.
Hopefully NSW will peak soon.
