Wednesday: Covid numbers

THERE were 79 new cases of covid identified in the Hunter New England Health area in the past 24 hours, totalling 1772 active cases.

Hunter New England cases by local government area:

• 18 – Lake Macquarie
• 17 – Newcastle
• 11 – Tamworth
• 8 – Port Stephens
• 7 – Maitland
• 6 – Cessnock
• 5 – Mid-Coast
• 2 – Dungog
• 2 – Moree
• 1 – Armidale
• 1 – Singleton
• 1 – Tenterfield

Covid numbers across the state:

• 293
• 381 people hospitalised
• 82 people are in intensive care
• 38 people are being ventilated
• 2 people have died
  • a woman in her 90s
  • a man in his 70s

Covid numbers by local health district:

• 79 – Hunter New England
• 51 – South Western Sydney
• 30 – Murrumbidgee
• 26 – Western Sydney
• 22 – Sydney
• 18 – Mid North Coast
• 14 – South Eastern Sydney
• 12 – Illawarra Shoalhaven
• 11 – Nepean Blue Mountains
• 9 – Northern Sydney
• 6 – Western NSW
• 5 – Southern NSW
• 4 – Central Coast
• 6 – yet to be assigned to an LHD