26.09.2021
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NSW records 961 COVID cases and nine further deaths

Greater Sydney has now been in lockdown for more than 13 weeks.

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New South Wales has recorded 961 locally acquired COVID-19 cases and another nine deaths, none of whom were fully vaccinated.

Of the deaths in the 24 hours to 8pm on Saturday, one person was in their 40s, two in their 60s, two in their 70s and four in their 80s.

It takes the toll for the current outbreak to 297.

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“We are seeing case numbers in southwest and western Sydney continue to have a downward trend but unfortunately in the Illawarra and Central Coast we are seeing more case numbers than we would like,” Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters.

There are 1,146 people being treated for COVID-19 in hospital, with 222 people in intensive care, 117 of whom require ventilation.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Credit: JOEL CARRETT/AAPIMAGE

Berejiklian said it was “very pleasing” to see that 85.2 per cent of the over-16 population has received a first vaccine dose and 59.2 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Greater Sydney has now been in lockdown for more than 13 weeks, with some residents given marching orders after large crowds gathered at beaches in Bondi and Manly on Friday.

Police issued three fines for breaching public health orders and a number of move-on directions as they dispersed the throngs.

A general view of Sydney’s CBD during lockdown. Credit: DAN HIMBRECHTS/AAPIMAGE

“I ask everybody to please hold the line, it’s really important we work hard now so when we do start opening up at 70 per cent, we’re able to do so safely and by bringing everyone together,” Berejiklian said.

“All of us would like to think that once we get to that 80 per cent double dose, it will be back to living without COVID, but it will not be.

“It will be a new COVID normal but we will enjoy so many more freedoms than what we have today and we will all adjust our lives.”

- with AAP