The state of New South Wales and capital city Sydney are the epicentre of the current delta wave in Australia.
The last few of weeks in NSW:
- 390, 466, 415, 478, 452, 633, 681, 644, 825, 830, 818, 753, 919, 1029, 882, 1026, 1218, 1290, 1164 and today's 1116
Hospitalisations up 46 overnight to 917.
- 150 are in ICU (+7) (127 of these were not vaccinated)
- 66 are on a ventilator (+8)
In more encouraging news from the state:
- NSW Health administered 47,704 COVID-19 vaccines in the 24 hours to 8pm last night,
- total number of vaccines administered in NSW is now 6,977,454 (rough split is 4.47m 1st doses and 2.43m fully vaccinated with 2 doses)
From Victoria earlier today,
- Coronavirus - confirmed surge in new cases today for 2nd largest population state Victoria ... 120 new locally transmitted cases, comes after a run in the 70s.
(Vic is Australia's 2nd largest population state with Australia's 2nd city, Melbourne).
Governments in Australia are backing away from their up-to-recently, 'covid-zero policy and now looking at getting high vaccination rates as a way out of roller coaster lockdowns. End of year is probably a reasonable target for 80% or so (perhaps late Nov, early Dec or even earlier with some luck).
NSW leader Gladys Berejiklian
