A person in their 20s is among 16 people to lose their lives while battling COVID.
They had significant underlying health conditions and had received four vaccine doses.
The figures released this morning show eight men and eight women among the COVID-related deaths, including one person aged in their 60s, two in their 70s, eight in their 80s and four in their 90s.
Four people were unvaccinated.
One person was from the South Coast, three were from the state’s Mid Coast, two were from the Lake Macquarie area, one was from the Blue Mountains, five were from northern Sydney, two were from south-western Sydney, one was from Sydney’s Northern Beaches and one was from Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs.
This brings the total number of COVID-19 related deaths in NSW since the beginning of the pandemic to 2,686.
There are currently 1,617 COVID-19 COVID patients admitted to hospital, including 60 people in intensive care, 20 of whom require ventilation.
There were 12,633 positive test results notified in the 24 hours to 4pm yesterday
That included 1615 cases from the Hunter New England area, 1231 from the South-Western Sydney Local Health District, 666 from the Illawarra Shoalhaven and 370 from Southern NSW.