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Watch: As 11 areas of Queensland come out of lockdown, Cairns and Yarrabah are heading into a snap lockdown after a taxi driver tested positive.
New South Wales has recorded 283 community cases of COVID-19 overnight and one more death.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Monday the latest death was a woman in her 90s who was in palliative care.
She had not been vaccinated. Berejiklian added at least 64 of the new COVID-19 cases had been infectious in the community.
The city of Tamworth will now enter a lockdown for five days beginning on Monday after an infectious person left Newcastle and visited the city. While there are no confirmed cases in the city as of yet, Berejiklian said there are “a number” of exposure sites.
There are 349 people in NSW hospitals – 67 of which are in intensive care, and 27 who need a ventilator.
It’s the latest grim tally from Australia where the country’s three most populous states of NSW, Victoria and Queensland reported a total of 282 COVID-19 community infections on Sunday.
Victoria and parts of Queensland are still locked down in an attempt to slow the spread, as is Greater Sydney and other surrounding areas.
