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Australia's New South Wales reports 1,485 COVID-19 cases

There are 1,030 people admitted to hospital, with 175 of them in intensive care unit, the New South Wales health ministry said on Twitter.

Reuters
Melbourne, Australia
Sun, September 5, 2021

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Australia's New South Wales reports 1,485 COVID-19 cases Police and defence personnel attend an orientation session outside a Covid-19 quarantine hotel in Melbourne on May 14, 2021. (AFP/William West)

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ustralia's New South Wales state reported 1,485 new locally acquired COVID-19 infections and three further deaths on Sunday, as authorities are struggling to contain a growing Delta outbreak.

There are 1,030 people admitted to hospital, with 175 of them in intensive care unit, the New South Wales health ministry said on Twitter.

Meanwhile, New Zealand reported 20 local COVID-19 cases on Sunday, the same as in previous day and all in Auckland, the epicentre of an outbreak of the highly transmissible Delta variant, health authorities said.

This brings to 801 the number of cases of the community outbreak, the vast majority of them in Auckland. Of those, 38 people are in hospital and six are in intensive care.

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