New South Wales - keeping on top of the pandemic one month, right back where we started from the next

9News, 10 July 2021:

New South Wales has recorded 50 new cases of COVID-19 since yesterday, breaking yesterday's record for the highest number of daily cases since April last year.

Of these locally acquired cases, 37 are linked to a known case or cluster, 14 are household contacts and 23 are close contacts. The source of infection for 13 cases remains under investigation.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian has called on more people to come forward for testing after 42,000 people were tested for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.

The number of people hospitalised with COVID-19 has grown again overnight with a teenager also now being treated in ICU.

Of today's 50 cases, more than half were in the community while infectious.

"That is the number we need to get down to as close to zero as possible," Ms Berejiklian said.....

UPDATE

Sadly, a woman in her 90s from south west Sydney died yesterday at Liverpool Hospital. She was a close contact of a locally acquired case and was tested for COVID-19 on Friday, returning a positive result early yesterday morning.

9News, 11 July 2021:

New South Wales reported 77 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19, including 55 linked to previously confirmed cases, and one death on Sunday in the 24 hours to 8 pm on Saturday. This is the highest single-day increase of cases in the state since Bondi's cluster outbreak began in June. All of Greater Sydney, including Wollongong, Central Coast and the Blue Mountains entered a two-week lockdown on June 26 that will remain until 12:01 am on July 17..... 

Ms Berejiklian and Dr Chant again urged people not to mix with other family members from separate households. More than 50 of today's new infections close family members of previous cases. "When you get COVID, unfortunately those most impacted are those closest to you," she said. Dr Chant said that the "vast majority" of the new reported cases live in the south-west Sydney region - a number that is "extraordinarily high". "We know transmission is going through households, from household to household. And it's impacting on other close friends and work colleagues," she said.....