Over the past 24 Hours to 8pm yesterday, New South Wales recorded 199 new locally acquired cases cases of COVID-19 and a further three were overseas-acquired cases.
State premier Gladys Berejiklian said that officials were not certain if the state had yet passed through the worst of the current outbreak of the Delta variant.
“We don’t know if we’ve peaked or it’s going to get worse,” she said.
“There’s clearly been a plateauing the last week but we don’t know if we’ll see them worsen before they get better,” Ms Berejiklian said.
NSW Health said of the 199 new cases, 111 were from unknown sources of the virus. Over the same 24-hour period 104, 536 tests were conducted and 25,312 people were vaccinated by the department.
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To date 3.9 million vaccinations have been administered in the state.
Ms Berejiklian said six million vaccinations would mean half the state’s adult population had been vaccinated but she hoped that figure would be reached by the end of the month.
“We know that 10 million jabs gives us 80 per cent of the adult population vaccinated. By the end of August, I’d like to see NSW record six million jabs,” Ms Berejiklian said.”That gives us additional options as to what life looks like on 29 August.”
“We don’t know if we’ve peaked or it’s going to get worse,” she said.
“We need everybody to work hard to get the case numbers down and also to get our vaccination rates as high as possible,” said the premier.