NSW identified 1,485 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases and three people have died in the 24 hours to 8:00pm yesterday.
Key points:
- Two out of three people who died overnight had not been vaccinated for COVID-19
- Public health modelling to be released this week predicts cases to peak within the next fortnight
- Western NSW recorded 32 new cases, including 23 in Dubbo
It comes as Premier Gladys Berejiklian welcomed another milestone for the state, with 40 per cent of the population fully vaccinated.
"We should remember that while we are anticipating the peak of cases to occur in the next couple of weeks, we can foreshadow that once we hit the 70 per cent double dose that life will feel much better in NSW," she said.
There are currently 1,030 people in hospital with the virus, including 175 in intensive care.
Seventy-two of those require ventilation.
The Premier said she would present health modelling this week which would include the foreshadowed peak in cases, hospitalisation, and intensive care.
"All the modelling indicates to us that the peak is likely to be here in the next week or two and the peak in hospitalisation and intensive care is likely to be with us in October," she said.
"You know the next few weeks will have high case numbers but what we don't want to see is when you make interventions at the wrong time and there is a surge in cases which sets us back."
A woman in her 50s from Western Sydney who had received one dose of COVID-19 vaccine has died at Blacktown Hospital.
A woman in her 70s from south-western Sydney died at Campbelltown Hospital, and a man in his 70s from south-western Sydney has died at Liverpool Hospital.
They had not been vaccinated.
The Premier said life would look better when 80 per cent of the population had received two doses of a COVID vaccine.
She promised the state would never have another statewide lockdown again once those rates had been achieved.
But she warned that cases and hospitalisation rates would rise over the next few weeks and NSW residents needed to continue to follow public health orders.
Overnight, NSW Health confirmed that three children with COVID-19 were in intensive care.
A Sydney Children's Hospital Network (SCHN ) spokeswoman said the children — an infant, a nine-year-old and a 12-year-old — had underlying health conditions but were being cared for due to COVID.
The children are not from the same family.
NSW Health's Jeremy McNulty said the SCHN was currently supporting more than 2,000 children with COVID-19.
"Overall, children do very well and with COVID-19, but there is always a spectrum of disease of any age group" he said.
How quickly is COVID spreading in your postcode?In regional NSW, where health authorities have been concerned about high rates in the Indigenous community, the Western NSW Health District recorded 32 new cases, bringing the total cases in that region to 791.
There were 23 in Dubbo, two in Orange and Blayney and one in Narromine and Cabonne.
In far-western NSW, there is one case each in Broken Hill and Wilcannia and two in Balranald — however they are under investigation as possible false positives.
Fragments of the virus were detected in Byron Bay overnight and authorities are also concerned by recent findings at Tamworth and Glen Innes in Hunter New England Local Health District (LHD), Cooma in Southern NSW LHD, and West Kempsey in Mid North Coast LHD.
NSW Health said there had been 27,984 locally acquired cases since June 16, when the first case in this outbreak was reported.
It administered 46,502 COVID-19 vaccines and 115,495 tests in the 24 hours to 8:00pm last night.
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