Covid Australia: Everything NSW residents need to know about shock new ...

Covid Australia: Everything NSW residents need to know about shock new ...
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10km radius scrapped, masks worn EVERYWHERE outside and businesses to close: Everything NSW residents need to know about shock new Covid restrictions after record day of infections

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Premier Gladys Berejiklian has ushered in a raft of new restrictions after NSW recorded its highest ever daily number of infections during the Covid pandemic. 

There were 239 new cases of locally acquired Covid cases recorded on Thursday, and two more deaths, as authorities battle to contain the highly infectious Delta outbreak. 

Of the new cases, at least 88 of those people were circulating in the community for all or part of their infectious period.

Ms Berejiklian has announced tighter restrictions will come into effect from midnight Friday as the state grapples with a record day of cases.  

Two people - a southwest Sydney woman in her 90s and man in his 80s - have died, taking the toll for the current outbreak to 13.

Greater Sydney and surrounding regions are in lockdown until at least August 28 as health authorities battle an outbreak of the virulent Delta strain.

Of the record 239 cases - which surpasses the 212 cases recorded on March 27, 2020 - at least 22 were in the community for part of their illnesses and 66 were infectious in the community.

The isolation status of 70 cases remains under investigation.

The source for 126 is still under investigation.

'We can only assume that things are likely to

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