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More than 500 people have died from COVID-19 in the latest NSW outbreak, with the state recording 294 new locally acquired cases and four deaths as all student year groups return to face-to-face learning.
There have been 502 COVID-related deaths in NSW since the latest wave began on June 16.
Now 93 per cent of people 16 and over have had one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 84.8 per cent of adults are fully jabbed.
There are 474 COVID-19 patients in NSW hospitals, 116 of them in intensive care.
In the 24-hour reporting period to 8pm on Sunday there were 59,612 tests.
Kindergarten, year one and year 12 students went back to school in NSW last week and the remaining students have returned to classrooms on Monday.
Non-urgent elective surgery will also resume at public and private hospitals within Greater Sydney on Monday after being cancelled in August to stop hospitals from being
