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A young boy is in critical condition after falling from a cliff face on the state’s South Coast.
Police have been told the 12-year-old boy was at Gerringong Falls in Budderoo National Park, off Jamberoo Mountain Road, and had been bushwalking, mountain bike riding and swimming with family and friends.
At about 2.30 pm on Saturday October 30, the boy was climbing up a track when he fell approximately 30 meters from the cliff face.
Emergency services were notified, and a multi-agency response commenced, including officers from Lake Illawarra Police District, Police Rescue, NSW Ambulance, NSW SES and National Parks and Wildlife Services.
The boy was treated at the scene for serious head injuries.
The injured lad was then winched from the location and airlifted to the Sydney Children’s Hospital at Randwick in a critical condition.
Police have commenced inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the incident.
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NSW has recorded 177 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 and one death.
It's the first time in nearly three months the case numbers have dipped below 200.
The tally from the 24 hours to 8 pm on Saturday is 59 fewer than the day before.
The infections were diagnosed from 75,378 tests.
Hospitalisation numbers fell slightly from 343 to 340.
NSW parents, meanwhile, are being urged to keep the Halloween tradition COVID safe.
"Aim to keep celebrations outside," is the chief advice offered by NSW Health's Dr. Jeremy McAnulty.
Dr. McAnulty said, "Provide closed packaging for treats instead of communal lolly bowls and consider ways for distributing treats that are safe, for example, putting them along the front fence or in the front yard.
"Keep it local," he said.
By that, he means parents and children should confine themselves to their own neighbourhood rather than wandering into 'treat streets' beyond.
Kids should not share face masks and if they are feeling unwell, they should not take part at all.
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New local coronavirus infections continue to be detected in regional NSW as the state prepares to open up travel between metropolitan Sydney and the regions.
NSW recorded 268 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases and two more deaths on Friday, with more than half of them detected outside Greater Sydney.
Premier Dominic Perrottet has defended the decision to delay until Monday travel for holidays and recreation between the areas from the 80 per cent vaccination mark.
"That was an unpopular decision for many people in Sydney, but it was the right decision for regional NSW," Mr Perrottet said on Friday.
In the 24 hours to 8pm on Thursday there were 54 positive tests returned in the Hunter New England Local Health District, 52 in the Murrumbidgee area and 13 on the state's Mid North Coast, with additional cases in the Illawarra Shoalhaven region and Southern NSW.
There were two deaths reported on Friday - a man and a woman who had acquired their infections at different aged care facilities.
There have been 566 COVID-19 related deaths in NSW since the start of the pandemic.
There are 363 people hospitalised with the virus, with 80 people in intensive care, 32 of whom require ventilation.
Some 93.5 per cent of NSW residents over 16 have received at least one vaccine dose, with 87 per cent fully vaccinated.
Of those aged 12 to 15, 78.7 per cent have had one dose and 56.7 per cent have received both.
Meanwhile, a pilot program for rapid antigen home testing kits in public schools will begin in Albury, near the Victorian border, next week.
The kits will be handed out by schools for use at home by staff and students, who have to undergo a test twice a week as part of community surveillance.
They will also be used for close contact testing to identify positive cases on school sites.
However, anyone who gets a positive result will have to get a standard test straight away to confirm the diagnosis.
In Sydney, at least 10 people either acquired the virus at Bondi's Tea Gardens Hotel last Saturday or attended while infectious, NSW Health says.
The pub has been referred to the regulator for its COVID-safety compliance to be reviewed.
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