7.10.2021<\/p>\n
NSW:<\/strong><\/p>\n NSW recorded 587 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.<\/p>\n NSW Health has reported another eight deaths. A western Sydney man in his 20s was one of two people who died at home.<\/p>\n Of the other people who sadly passed away, one person was in their 50s, two were in their 60s, two were in their 70s, and two were in their 80s.<\/p>\n Five people were not vaccinated, one person had received one dose, and two people with underlying health conditions had received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n If you are directed to get tested for COVID 19 or self-isolate at any time, you must follow the rules whether or not the venue or exposure setting is listed on the NSW Health website.<\/p>\n It remains vital that anyone who has any symptoms or is a close or casual contact of a person with COVID-19, isolates and is tested immediately. When testing clinics are busy, please ensure you stay in line, identify yourself to staff and tell them that you have symptoms or are a contact of a case.<\/p>\n Victoria:<\/strong><\/p>\n For Victorians still glued to the daily COVID-19 figures, it has been a grim week.<\/p>\n The number of new infections reached a nationwide record, with 1,763 cases recorded from Monday’s tests.<\/p>\n A day later, 11 more people with COVID-19 died.<\/p>\n And there are warnings the rising numbers will have a direct effect on the state’s health system, which is already straining under pressure.<\/p>\n But amidst the bad news, there is some cause for optimism \u2014 largely due to vaccination.<\/p>\n ACT:<\/strong><\/p>\n The ACT has recorded 41 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19.<\/p>\n At least five of the new cases were infectious in the community and 24 are yet to be linked to a known source.<\/p>\n There are currently 15 people in hospital with the virus.<\/p>\n Seven people are in intensive care \u2013 six of those requiring ventilation.<\/p>\n ACT Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith also confirmed more cases had been linked to a growing cluster at the special care nursery at the Centenary Hospital for Women and Children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 7.10.2021 NSW: NSW recorded 587 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night. NSW Health has reported another eight deaths. A western Sydney man in his 20s was one of two people who died at home. Of the other people who sadly passed away, one person was in their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-important-news"],"views":25,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}