111 new cases in NSW.
1 death.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-17/ ... /100300492
NSW has recorded 111 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours to 8:00pm yesterday.
It's the second highest number of daily new infections since this outbreak began on June 16.
There has also been another COVID-19 death, bringing the state's death toll since the start of the pandemic to 59.
The man who died was in his 80s.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said 29 of those cases were infectious while in the community.
"That is the number which we need to get close to zero to be able to get out of the lockdown and as we see," she said.
"Unfortunately, this number is stubborn and it won't go down."
In light of these unmoving infection figures, the Premier will from midnight introduce additional restrictions to south-west Sydney where she said over 80 per cent of new case were being found.
Any person in the Fairfield, Liverpool and Canterbury-Bankstown local government areas (LGAs) will not be permitted to leave their region for work, unless they are an essential health worker or an emergency service worker.
Aged and disability workers are included as health workers.
Where workers do need to leave their LGA for work, they are required to be tested every three days, even if they don't have symptoms.
All carpooling is to be stopped in these LGA's unless among members of the same household.
More to come.
