Friday: Covid numbers

WHILE covid is now spreading within regional communities, thanks to vaccination rates, the overall cases numbers throughout the state are decreasing, along with hospitalisations and deaths.

In the Hunter New England Health District there were 54 new cases identified in the past 24 hours, with two new cases identified in the Singleton area. 

Covid numbers in Hunter New England Health:

• 17 people are hospitalised
• 4 people are in intensive care

Cases by local government area:

• 15 – Newcastle
• 10 – Mid-Coast
• 7 – Lake Macquarie
• 6 – Cessnock
• 6 – Tamworth LGA
• 4 – Port Stephens
• 3 – Maitland
• 2 – Singleton
• 1 – Armidale

Statewide covid numbers

• 268 new locally acquired cases
• 363 people hospitalised
• 80 people in intensive care
• 32 people requiring ventilation
• 2 people have died
  • a woman in her 90s near Wollongong
  • a man in his 70s in Albury

Cases by Local Health District

• 54 – Hunter New England
• 52 – Murrumbidgee
• 41 – South Western Sydney
• 29 – Sydney
• 21 – Western Sydney
• 13 – Mid North Coast
• 12 – Nepean Blue Mountains
• 11 – South Eastern Sydney
• 8 – Illawarra Shoalhaven
• 7 – Southern NSW
• 4 – Central Coast
• 3 – Northern Sydney
• 3 – Far West
• 1 – Western
• 1 – Northern NSW
• 8 – yet to be assigned to an LHD.