https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-29/ ... /100416170
NSW records 1,218 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases,
six deaths
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NSW recorded 1,218 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours to 8:00pm yesterday.
It is a new daily record for the state,
and the largest number ever recorded by an Australian jurisdiction in a 24-hour period.
Six COVID-19 patients died in the reporting period.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said in the past week, 834,000 people had received a vaccine dose.
"It is an outstanding result, it has broken all our records," she said.
Thirty-five per cent of adults in NSW are now fully vaccinated — halfway to the state's 70 per cent target for opening up.
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There are 31 COVID-19 cases in Sydney's Parklea Correctional Centre, which has now been locked down to avoid inmate movement.
The ABC understands the inmates who were in the main section of the correctional centre, and not new arrivals in custody.
Of the six people who died, three were aged in their 80s and three were in their 70s.
One man in his 80s died at Concord Hospital after acquiring the infection at the Wyoming Aged Care facility in Sydney's inner west. The man's death is the fifth linked to the facility.
A man in his 80s from south-west Sydney died at Nepean Hospital after acquiring his infection there. His is the fifth death linked to that outbreak.
There are 813 COVID-19 cases currently in hospital, including 126 in intensive care, of whom 54 are being ventilated.
NSW Health's Jeremy McAnulty said of those 126 in intensive care, 113 were not vaccinated and 12 had received one dose of vaccine.
Dr McAnulty said two ICU patients had been fully vaccinated but acute symptoms were uncommon in fully vaccinated people.
"The vaccine is great, we know it is around 90 per cent if you are fully vaccinated, of protecting from severe disease, hospitalisation and death.
"But it is not perfect, it is not 100 per cent, so unfortunately we do get breakthrough infection sometimes, even in people who have had two doses."
The main areas of concern remain around Western Sydney and the south west, with concern around the suburbs of Guildford, Merrylands, Auburn, Greenacre, Bankstown, Punchbowl and Blacktown.
Dr McAnulty said COVID-19 fragments had been detected in sewage in regional areas including Trangi, just west of Dubbo, Byron Bay on the north coast, Cooma in the southern Tablelands and Tamworth in the north.
More to come.
