NSW Covid updates: Vaccine changes for Australians under 60

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Eighteen cases of community transmission were detected from nearly 59,000 tests in the 24 hours to 8pm Sunday night. Only six were in isolation while potentially infectious.

Fifteen cases were linked to the Bondi outbreak and two were close contacts of a mystery case.

“While the numbers today are less than the numbers yesterday, we have to be prepared for the numbers to bounce around and we have to be prepared for the numbers to go up considerably,” Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.

“I want to stress about a third of those cases, about six of them were in isolation for the whole time, and some of them were in isolation for part of that time.”

NSW Health said three new overseas-acquired cases and one interstate acquired case were recorded in the same period, bringing the total number of cases in NSW since the beginning of the pandemic to 5,589.

“There have been 130 locally acquired cases reported since 16 June 2021, when the first case of the Bondi cluster, a driver who transported international flight crew, was reported. Of these, 124 are now linked to the Bondi cluster,” Chief Medical Officer Dr Kerry Chant said.

Meanwhile NSW Health has advised that an additional two South Coogee Public School students have tested positive today to COVID-19.

"These students are close contacts of the two previously reported cases at the school,” the spokesman said.

“Based on the additional cases and because there are a number of interactions between children in different year groups… all students are now close contacts and must have been tested and self-isolate for 14 days regardless of a negative test result.”