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Tensions are high in NSW as COVID-19 case numbers continue to rise and police hunt down thousands of people who ignored public health orders to protest on Saturday against lockdowns.
Despite a lockdown of Greater Sydney entering its fifth week, case numbers of the deadly Delta strain of the virus hit a new high on Saturday as NSW reported 163 new local infections.
Visitors to the Chris O'Brien Lifehouse cancer hospital in Sydney's inner west have potentially been exposed to the virus.
NSW Health indicated that visitors to the centre around lunchtime on Tuesday were considered to be close contacts, after a patient who attended for an appointment tested positive.
The NSW government is frustrated with rising case numbers, which have persisted despite the imposition of more severe restrictions.
The NSW Labor opposition, meanwhile, said the government should host an online "summit" bringing together stakeholders including community leaders, unions and business peak bodies.
They wanted the summit held as early as Monday.
"The summit could act like a community cabinet, alongside the NSW cabinet, to provide important community buy-in, feedback and acceptance," Labor said in a statement on Sunday.
The latest COVID-19 lockdown escalation has prevented all but the most essential workers in Cumberland and Blacktown local government areas leaving those areas, joining Fairfield residents.
Ms Berejiklian has described vaccination as the way out of the outbreak, but her plea for more Pfizer stocks has been rebuffed.
Instead, NSW will have to settle for 50,000 more Pfizer doses from the federal government's national stockpile.
Ms Berejiklian has said she will soon provide the state with a "road map" until the state reaches a good proportion of its citizens vaccinated.
Three regional NSW local government areas in the state's central west are also under stay-at-home orders until at least July 28.
Local elections across NSW have also been postponed by three months to December 4, Local Government Minister Shelley Hancock said.
NSW Health on Saturday night issued an alert about a confirmed COVID case on Virgin flight VA1139 from Sydney to Ballina on July 14, with anyone aboard deemed a close contact.
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A man has died after a motorbike crash in Sydney’s southwest yesterday.
About 5.15pm on Saturday the 24th of July, emergency services responded to reports a motorbike and car had collided on Camden Valley Road near Somerset Avenue, Narellan.
The rider of the motorbike, a 27-year-old man, was treated at the scene by paramedics but died a short time later.
The two female occupants of the car, a Holden Commodore, were uninjured.
The driver, aged 50, was taken to hospital for mandatory testing.
Officers attached to Camden Police Area Command established a crime scene and commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.
A report will be prepared for the coroner.
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A cold front is moving off the east coast this morning.
Vigorous westerly winds behind this front are extending across the east, continuing this evening and easing into Monday morning.
Wild weather bringing DAMAGING WINDS are expected along the state's east coast and into the highlands today.
Winds between 60 to 70 km/h with peak gusts in excess of 90 km/h are likely over the Alpine, South West Slopes, the Blue Mountains, Illawarra, and elevated areas of the Southern Tablelands, South Coast, Northern Tablelands, Hunter, and Mid North Coast.
DAMAGING WINDS are also possible through the southern and eastern suburbs of the Sydney Metropolitan district.
Things should ease off later tonight or early Monday morning as the cold front moves further into the Tasman Sea.
BLIZZARDS above 1500 metres with blowing snow.
NSW National Parks and Wildlife recommends that back-country travel be postponed until conditions improve.
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NSW recorded 163 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night. That's up from 136 in the previous 24 hour period.
Of these locally acquired cases, 87 are linked to a known case or cluster – 62 are household contacts and 25 are close contacts – and the source of infection for 76 cases is under investigation. 45 cases were infectious in the community.
NSW recorded 163 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night. pic.twitter.com/HHbLss3xpp
— NSW Health (@NSWHealth) July 24, 2021
There have been 1,940 locally acquired cases reported since 16 June 2021, when the first case in the Bondi cluster was reported. There are currently 139 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 37 people in intensive care, 17 of whom require ventilation.
Sadly, a man in his 80s from south-west Sydney died at Liverpool hospital yesterday (Friday). NSW Health extends its deepest sympathies to his loved ones.
This man’s death was announced yesterday and is included in today’s figures. This brings the total number of COVID-related deaths in NSW to 62, including six during the current outbreak.
There have been 1,940 locally acquired cases reported since 16 June 2021, when the first case in the Bondi cluster was reported.
— NSW Health (@NSWHealth) July 24, 2021
There are currently 139 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 37 people in intensive care, 17 of whom require ventilation.
A record 93,910 COVID-19 tests were reported to 8pm last night, compared with the previous day’s total of 86,620. NSW Health thanks the community for continuing to come forward for testing in high numbers, which is vital to detecting cases early and preventing further spread of the virus.
Of the 163 locally acquired cases reported to 8pm last night, 67 are from South Western Sydney Local Health District (LHD), 45 are from Western Sydney LHD, 31 are from Sydney LHD, 14 are from South Eastern Sydney LHD, four are from Northern Sydney LHD, one is from Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD and one is from Central Coast LHD.
Fragments continue to be detected in local sewage treatment plants
NSW Health’s ongoing sewage surveillance program has detected fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 at the sewage treatment plants at Warriewood on the Northern Beaches, and Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands. There are no known cases in either of these areas.
Everyone in these areas is asked to be especially vigilant for any symptoms that could signal COVID-19, and if they appear, to immediately be tested and isolate until a negative result is received. If symptoms appear again, please be tested and isolate again.
Stay-at-home orders tightened for some
Due to the emergence of further cases of community transmission in Sydney’s west and south-west, from 12.01am today, people living in the Cumberland and Blacktown Local Government Areas (LGAs) are only be allowed to leave their LGA for work if they are an authorised worker.
Authorised worker restrictions are already in place for Fairfield, Liverpool and Canterbury-Bankstown LGAs. This means the authorised worker restrictions will now apply to five LGAs.
Authorised workers from the Cumberland, Blacktown and Liverpool LGAs who work outside their local government area are not required to undertake surveillance testing.
Authorised workers from the Fairfield LGA who work outside this area must have a COVID-19 test once every three days in order to be allowed to go to work.
People who live in the Canterbury-Bankstown LGA but work outside this area as an aged care or health worker must have a COVID-19 test once every three days in order to be allowed to go to work.
This includes workers who provide ancillary or support services for aged care and health, such as cleaners, cooks and security providers.
NSW Health continues to urge everyone in these five LGAs, and throughout NSW, to get tested immediately if they have even the mildest of symptoms and isolate until they receive a negative result.
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