{"id":1022,"date":"2021-09-07T09:07:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T09:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2021-09-07T09:07:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T09:07:01","slug":"nsw-reports-eight-deaths-and-1220-new-locally-acquired-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"NSW reports eight deaths and 1220 new locally-acquired cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New South Wales has recorded eight deaths from Covid-19 and 1220 new community cases in the 24 hours to 8pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/assets\/news_crops\/128052\/eight_col_000_9KK24M.jpg?1628557919\" alt=\"A health worker takes a swab sample at a Covid-19 drive-through testing site in western Sydney on August 7, 2021.\" width=\"720\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">File photo. A health worker takes a swab sample at a Covid-19 drive-through testing site in western Sydney on 7 August.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0AFP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The state has 192 people with Covid-19 in intensive care units and of these 75 are on ventilators.<\/p>\n<p>The eight people who died were aged in their 50s to 90s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1435045545135935489&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rnz.co.nz%2Fnews%2Fworld%2F450953%2Fcovid-19-nsw-reports-eight-deaths-and-1220-new-locally-acquired-cases&amp;sessionId=584531ade384ab9c01f22f145c59267d0007de94&amp;siteScreenName=rnz_news&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1435045545135935489\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the average for the proportion of the population who had received first doses was now over 74 percent, and noted in some local government areas that were deemed hot spots the figure was over 80 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said she thought the state could reach 90 per cent fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I actually think that we can. Maybe I&#8217;m being too optimistic, but I actually think we can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She would like to see the state at over 80 percent by early next week.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria recorded\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/450950\/covid-19-victoria-246-local-cases-as-pace-of-vaccination-accelerates\">246 new locally-acquired cases of Covid-19<\/a>. Contact tracers had so far linked 90 of the cases to existing outbreaks, but the number of those people who were in the community while infectious is no longer being reported each day.<\/p>\n<p>-RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New South Wales has recorded eight deaths from Covid-19 and 1220 new community cases in the 24 hours to 8pm on Monday. File photo. A health worker takes a swab sample at a Covid-19 drive-through testing site in western Sydney on 7 August.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0AFP The state has 192 people with Covid-19 in intensive care units and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,222,177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-featured"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}