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NSW
recorded 35,054
new confirmed
cases
of COVID-19
in the 24 hours to 8pm Tuesday,
4
January 2022 and 8
deaths.
The
NSW death toll now stands at 685
men, women and children since the pademic first began in January
2020.
Currently
there are 1,491 COVID-19 cases admitted across 63
hospitals, with 119 people in
intensive care, 32 of whom require ventilation.
There
are currently 186,552 confirmed COVID-19 cases under
self-management outside of a
hospital setting. Note:
this does not include those infected people who have been denied
access to PCR testing since late December 2021 and
are therefore invisible in all official
state datasets.
Of
the 35,054 cases reported to 8pm last night, 6,542 are from South
Western Sydney Local Health District (LHD), 5,989 are from Western
Sydney LHD, 5,710 are from South Eastern Sydney LHD, 3,827 are from
Sydney LHD, 3,667 are from Northern Sydney LHD, 2,961 are from Hunter
New England LHD, 1,502 are from Nepean Blue Mountains LHD, 1,496 are
from Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD, 588 are from Central Coast LHD, 576
are from Northern NSW LHD, 501 are from Western NSW LHD, 392
are from Mid North Coast LHD, 379 are from Murrumbidgee LHD, 345 are
from Southern NSW LHD, 24 are from Far West LHD, eight are in
correctional settings and 547 are yet to be assigned to an LHD.
There
were 108,844 COVID-19 tests reported
to 8pm on 4 January
revealing a test positivity rate of 32.2%.
NSW
Health reports that on 4 January there were 184,413 active
COVID-19 cases state-wide.
As
at 8m on Tuesday, 4 January there were 576 new confirmed cases of
COVID-19 across the 7 local government areas in the Northern NSW
Local Health District.
Tweed
Shire – 240 cases across postcodes 2483, 2484, 2485, 2486,
2487, 2488, 2489;
Ballina
Shire – 102 cases across postcodes 2477, 2478;
Byron
Shire – 96 cases across postcodes 2479, 2481, 2482, 2483;
Clarence
Valley – 67 cases across postcodes 2460, 2462, 2463, 2464;
Lismore
City – 43 cases across postcodes 2472, 2480;
Richmond
Valley – 25 cases across postcodes 2469, 2470, 2471, 2473,
Kyogle
Shire – 3 cases in postcode 2474.
TOTAL
576
There
are currently
26 COVID-19 positive patients in hospital in Northern NSW,
with 4 of these in ICU.
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NSW
recorded 34,994
new cases of COVID-19 in
the 24 hours to 8pm Wednesday,
5 January 2022
and 6
deaths.
The
NSW
death toll now stands at 691
men,
women and children since the pademic first began in January 2020.
There
are currently 1,609
COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital,
with 131 people in intensive care, 38 of whom require ventilation.
Of
the 34,994 cases reported to 8pm last night, 5,556 are from South
Eastern Sydney Local Health District (LHD), 5,456 are from Western
Sydney LHD, 5,364 are from South Western Sydney LHD, 4,226 are from
Sydney LHD, 3,538 are from Northern Sydney LHD, 3,424 are from Hunter
New England LHD, 1,633 are from Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD, 1,452 are
from Nepean Blue Mountains LHD, 1,116 are from Central Coast LHD, 686
are from Northern NSW LHD,
637 are from Mid North Coast LHD, 524 are from Western NSW LHD, 419
are from Murrumbidgee LHD, 322 are from Southern NSW LHD, 30 are from
Far West LHD, 11 are in correctional settings two are in hotel
quarantine and 598 are yet to be assigned to an LHD.
There
were 111,231
COVID-19 tests
reported to 8pm 5
January, with
an as yet unconfirmed test positivity rate. However, a number of journalists are reporting 35% of all tests on 5 January were positive for COVID-19.
As
at 8m on Wednesday, 5 January there were 686 new confirmed
cases of COVID-19 across the 7 local government areas in the Northern
NSW Local Health District and 1 death in Ballina
LGA.
Byron
Shire – 236 cases across postcodes 2479, 2481, 2482, 2483;
Tweed
Shire – 224 cases across postcodes 2483, 2484, 2485, 2486,
2487, 2488, 2489, 2490;
Ballina
Shire – 92 cases across postcodes 2477, 2478;
Lismore
City – 81 cases across postcodes 2472, 2480;
Richmond
Valley – 21 cases across postcodes 2469, 2470, 2471, 2473;
Clarence
Valley – 20 cases across postcodes 2460, 2462, 2463, 2464;
2466;
Kyogle
Shire – 9 cases across postcodes 2474, 2476;
Tenterfield
Shire – 3 cases across postcodes 2372, 2476.
Note:
Tenterfield
is in the
Hunter-New England
Local Health District, but postcodes put cases in NNSWLHD
TOTAL
686
There
are currently
25
COVID-19 positive patients in hospital in Northern NSW,
with 4 of these in ICU.