NSW recorded 1029 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night, a new daily record for the state in the pandemic and the first time 1000 cases for a 24-hour period has been surpassed in any Australian state or territory.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejikilian announced this morning that a further three people had died in the state, bringing the number of COVID-related deaths in the state to 79 since June 16 2021, and the number of lives lost to 135 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Due to ongoing concerns about community transmission, stay-at-home orders in place for regional NSW will be extended by two weeks, until at least 11.59pm on 10 September, in line with existing orders for the Greater Sydney area.
Everyone must stay at home unless they have a reasonable excuse to leave. They also cannot have visitors in their home from outside their household, including family and friends.
Of the 1029 locally acquired cases reported to 8pm last night, 403 are from Western Sydney Local Health District (LHD), 309 are from South Western Sydney LHD, 112 are from Sydney LHD, 71 are from Nepean Blue Mountains LHD, 35 are from Western NSW LHD, 57 are from South Eastern Sydney LHD, 17 are from Northern Sydney LHD, six are from Far West LHD, two are from Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD, two are from Central Coast LHD, no new cases for Hunter New England LHD and 15 cases are yet to be assigned to an LHD.
Meanwhile, NSW Health’s ongoing sewage surveillance program has recently detected fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 at the sewage treatment plants in Tamworth, Merimbula, Cooma and Brewarrina.
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