A Health spokesman on Friday night said the deceased person in their 60s was found in their home after another family member arrived at a hospital with symptoms. An ambulance was subsequently sent to the home where other people were also sick and tested positive for COVID-19. It is the third COVID-related death to have occurred in a home in the past two weeks.
There are 187 people with COVID-19 in hospital, of which 58 are in intensive care.
The outbreak’s tolls on the state’s health system on Friday prompted the temporary suspension of all non-urgent surgery in public hospitals in Greater Sydney from Monday.
Since the national vaccine advisory group ATAGI recommended all unvaccinated adults strongly consider AstraZeneca vaccines in outbreak zones, more than 18,000 people aged under 40 in NSW have received their first dose. But health authorities are most concerned about low rates of vaccination in elderly Australians, warning that they will “bear the brunt” of COVID-19 unless rates are improved. . disallowed/politics/nsw/churches-mosques-community-centres-to-become-pop-up-vax-clinics-in-hotspots-20210730-p58eis.html
