Nation's eyes on NSW as outbreak worsens - Great Lakes Advocate

The nation's eyes are on NSW after the state recorded its highest daily number of COVID-19 cases since the current outbreak began, with warnings the situation will worsen. Of the 50 cases identified in the 24 hours to 8pm on Friday, 37 were active in the community for some or all of their infectious period. Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters on Saturday the numbers suggested things would get worse before they got better. The state is also seeing more young COVID-19 patients in intensive care than it has before, she said. Ms Berejiklian pleaded for honesty towards contact tracers and obedience to lockdown rules. "The length of this lockdown is up to each and every one of us," she said. "When people don't tell us the truth, or withhold from us what's happening, it just lasts longer." NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant once more urged residents to get vaccinated. No one who has received two doses of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine has been hospitalised, she said on Saturday. Delivery of Pfizer doses to Australia is set to rise to about one million doses a week from July 19, with 4.5 million expected to be available over August. An advertising campaign will be launched as the supply increases, and some 1300 more GPs will join the rollout. Other states are watching NSW carefully, keen to avoid the virus leaking across borders. More police are now manning Victoria's NSW border, with more than 300 officers involved in patrols, traffic management, spot checks and vehicle intercepts. Victoria's coronavirus testing commander Jeroen Weimar has warned the state could soon completely close off to its northern neighbour. He told Victorians in regional NSW to come home or risk being shut out. Victoria and Queensland did not record any local COVID-19 cases on Saturday. Australian Associated Press

The nation's eyes are on NSW after the state recorded its highest daily number of COVID-19 cases since the current outbreak began, with warnings the situation will worsen.

Of the 50 cases identified in the 24 hours to 8pm on Friday, 37 were active in the community for some or all of their infectious period.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters on Saturday the numbers suggested things would get worse before they got better.

The state is also seeing more young COVID-19 patients in intensive care than it has before, she said.

Ms Berejiklian pleaded for honesty towards contact tracers and obedience to lockdown rules.

"The length of this lockdown is up to each and every one of us," she said.

"When people don't tell us the truth, or withhold from us what's happening, it just lasts longer."

NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant once more urged residents to get vaccinated.

No one who has received two doses of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine has been hospitalised, she said on Saturday.

Delivery of Pfizer doses to Australia is set to rise to about one million doses a week from July 19, with 4.5 million expected to be available over August.

An advertising campaign will be launched as the supply increases, and some 1300 more GPs will join the rollout.

Other states are watching NSW carefully, keen to avoid the virus leaking across borders.

More police are now manning Victoria's NSW border, with more than 300 officers involved in patrols, traffic management, spot checks and vehicle intercepts.

Victoria's coronavirus testing commander Jeroen Weimar has warned the state could soon completely close off to its northern neighbour.

He told Victorians in regional NSW to come home or risk being shut out.

Victoria and Queensland did not record any local COVID-19 cases on Saturday.

Australian Associated Press

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