NSW Health has revealed another 1290 locally acquired COVID cases over the past 24 hours, which follows 1035 cases on Saturday and 1218 cases on Sunday:
NSW recorded 1,290 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night. pic.twitter.com/OSuM8LS7o4
— NSW Health (@NSWHealth) August 30, 2021
Four more people have died with COVID – all aged 50 or above. There have been 93 COVID-19 related deaths in NSW since 16 June 2021.
There are currently 840 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 137 people in intensive care, 48 of whom require ventilation.
The next chart plots NSW’s daily cases against Victoria’s winter-spring outbreak last year, which shut Melbourne down for 14 straight weeks:
NSW’s outbreak continues to worsen.
NSW now has around 17,000 active recorded COVID cases, which continue to rise at an alarming rate:
No end in sight.
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