SYDNEY (Reuters) – New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, reported 210 locally acquired cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, up from 170 infections a day earlier, as total cases in the latest outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant reached 3,190.
There are 198 people in the hospital, 53 of them in intensive care and 27 requiring ventilation, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said. There was also one death reported, bringing the total number of deaths in the outbreak to 14.
Parts of the neighbouring state Queensland will enter into a three-day snap lockdown on Saturday after the state recorded six new coronavirus cases of the Delta strain, the state’s Deputy Premier Steven Miles said.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly, Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)
