NSW in terrible strife 643 Covid cases WED 18 Aug, page-56

Please don't dramatise. In NSW there are around 462 people hospitalised with Covid out of 8,020 active cases

according to industry details per table below there are 21,253 beds in NSW in public hospitals in 2018. We would hope that has grown. There are also 97 private hospitals in NSW.

Table 5.3: Public hospitals, by hospital size, states and territories, 2017–18
	NSW	Vic (a)	Qld (b)	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT (c)	Total
Number of hospitals
10 or fewer beds	25	39	34	44	20	13	0	0	178
More than 10 to 50 beds	117	52	56	25	38	5	1	2	295
More than 50 to 100 beds	28	21	8	5	11	2	0	1	75
More than 100 to 200 beds	22	17	6	8	3	1	0	1	57
More than 200 to 500 beds	21	14	12	6	3	2	1	1	60
More than 500 beds	8	8	7	2	2	0	1	0	28
All hospitals	221	151	123	90	77	23	3	5	693
Average available beds (c)
10 or fewer beds	107	232	222	215	120	69	. .	0	964
More than 10 to 50 beds	3,038	1,165	1,305	623	851	79	26	43	7,130
More than 50 to 100 beds	1,935	1,602	581	354	811	189	. .	n.a.	5,472
More than 100 to 200 beds	3,247	2,526	878	1,463	382	140	. .	n.a.	8,636
More than 200 to 500 beds	7,077	4,401	3,956	1,952	998	863	269	315	19,831
More than 500 beds	5,849	4,895	5,329	1,341	1,446	. .	783	n.a.	19,642
All hospitals	21,253	14,820	12,271	5,947	4,608	1,340	1,078	358	61,675