NSW new COVID-19 cases spike to 1035, two deaths

Two people have died in hospital due to COVID-19, a woman in her 70s died at Nepean Hospital and a woman in her 80s at Westmead Hospital.

There are 778 people across the state hospitalised because of COVID-19. Of those patients, 125 in intensive care with 52 of them on ventilators.

Health Minister Brad Hazzard also detailed the situation in western NSW. Another four cases were recorded in the remote town of Wilcannia, which now has 58 people suffering from the virus. All up there are 69 people in the Far West health district.

In the Western NSW health district an extra 42 cases overnight bring the region's total number of patients to 495. The majority of those overnight cases, 34, are in Dubbo.

Bourke logged six cases with Bathurst and Mudgee one each overnight.

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NSW Health's ongoing sewage surveillance program has recently detected fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 at the sewage treatment plants in Brewarrina, Moree, Merimbula, Baradine, Bonny Hills.

The state also hit a vaccination high yesterday with 156,165 people jabbed across the state.

There have been 83 COVID-19 related deaths in NSW since 16 June 2021. There have been 139 in total since the start of the pandemic.

In Victoria 64 local cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the 24-hour reporting.

Twenty-eight of the new cases were out in the community while infectious, while 49 of those new cases recorded have been connected to the current outbreak.

The Victorian government in talks with the Commonwealth to increase vaccine supply to inoculate 120,000 more Victorians per week.

Meanwhile Queensland has recorded no new locally acquired COVID-19 cases and four new cases in hotel quarantine.

Almost 20,000 vaccinations were administered in the past 24 hours, making it well over 1.3 million Queenslanders to have received the vaccine.