NSW Covid updates: Gladys Berejiklian announces 787 new cases, 12 deaths

NSW has seen a significant drop in Covid infections as the premier confirmed the state's 70 per cent reopening date. Read our Covid blog.

Twelve more people have died from Covid in NSW as the state recorded 787 new cases.

Four people in their 60s were among those that died as well as two in their 70s, four in their 80s and two in their 90s.

Six of the people who died were not vaccinated, five had received one dose and one person was fully vaccinated.

It comes as Premier Gladys Berejiklian said lockdown would ease on October 11, when the state will have hit a 70 per cent vaccination rate. She also unveiled the key changes that will come into place when the state hits an 80 per cent vaccination target.

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Originally published as NSW Covid updates: Gladys Berejiklian announces 787 new cases, 12 deaths

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