scone.com.auCovid numbers for today
THERE were 35 new cases of covid in the Hunter New England Health district, including five in Cessnock and two in Tamworth.
Hunter New England Health:
- 35 new cases
- 20 were infectious in the community
- 1,039 active cases
- 28 people are hospitalised
- 2 people are in intensive care
Hunter New England Health cases by local government area:
- 13 – Lake Macquarie (469 active cases)
- 6 – Mid-Coast (93 active cases)
- 5 – Cessnock (292 active cases)
- 4 – Maitland (253 active cases)
- 4 – Newcastle (347 active cases)
- 2 – Tamworth (81 active cases)
- 1 – Port Stephens (80 active cases)
Statewide covid numbers:
- 273 new cases of covid
- 589 people are hospitalised
- 128 people are in intensive care
- 69 people require ventilation
- 4 people have passed away
- 3 people in their 60s
- 1 person in their 80s
Cases broken down by local health district:
- 77 – South Western Sydney
- 48 – Western Sydney
- 35 – Hunter New England
- 27 – Nepean Blue Mountains
- 26 – South Eastern Sydney
- 19 – Sydney
- 11 – Central Coast
- 10 – Murrumbidgee
- 9 – Illawarra Shoalhaven
- 2 – Southern NSW
- 1 – Mid North Coast
- 1 – Northern Sydney
- 1 – Northern NSW
- 1 – Western NSW
- 2 – correctional setting
- 3 – yet to be assigned to an LHD.
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