Here’s the key developments for today:

• Sydney’s COVID-19 outbreak will get worse before it gets better, warned NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, after the state recorded its highest daily caseload since April last year and health authorities battle with the rapid spread of the virus across south-western Sydney. “I’ll be shocked if it’s less than 100 this time tomorrow, of additional new cases” warned the Premier today.
• CMO Professor Paul Kelly said people in Sydney could consider having their second jab sooner than the current 12 weeks, because two doses were critical for protection from the highly contagious delta variant.
• “Graphic” federal government advertisements promoting vaccination would start airing in Sydney tonight.
• Daniel Andrews again urged Victorians in NSW to return to Victoria as soon as possible so they don’t become stranded.
• A 90-year-old woman from south-western Sydney who caught the virus from a family member has died, after returning a positive test yesterday. She is the first fatality of the outbreak that started in Bondi less than a month ago on June 16.
• There were 77 new cases of locally acquired infection in the 24 hours to 8pm last night. Of those, 33 were active in the community while infectious; 50 of the latest cases are close family contact of previous cases.
• The NSW Premier said the “numbers aren’t going in the right direction”, making it highly likely the lockdown will be extended beyond Friday.
• There are now 52 people in hospital, up from 47 yesterday, of whom 15 are in intensive care, including a teenager, and five are using ventilators.
• The NSW Premier anticipated that new case numbers will be more than 100 on Monday.
• NSW police issued 106 fines for breaches of public health orders with people found at three separate locations gathering against the stay at home restrictions.
• Masks will be required in the common areas of unit blocks in Sydney from Tuesday.
• Tradies doing work at multiple sites are being urged to be tested after a number of cases of people spreading the virus between sites.