NSW Covid Updates: 344 new cases, two deaths

Two men, one aged in his 30s and one in his 90s, have died from Covid as NSW recorded 344 new cases. Read Wednesday's Covid blog.

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Two men, one aged in his 30s and one in his 90s, have died after contracting Covid as NSW recorded 344 new cases. 

The elderly man was unvaccinated while the younger man from Sydney's north had "significant" underlying health conditions. Both men died in hospital.

Sixty-two people remain in the ICU battling the virus including three people in their 20s and seven in their 30s. No one currently in intensive care has received two doses of the vaccine.

NSW recorded 344 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.

Of these locally acquired cases, 115 are linked to a known case or cluster – 97 household contacts & 18 are close contacts – & the source of infection for 229 cases is under investigation pic.twitter.com/OQC5fstf5Q

— NSW Health (@NSWHealth) August 11, 2021

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Wednesday that at least 65 of today's cases were in the community for all or most of their infectious period.

Cases are slowly declining in the Fairfield and Canterbury-Bankstown LGAs however infections are rising in surrounding suburbs of Bayside, Burwood and in the Inner West.

There were no extra cases recorded in Armidale, Tamworth or the Northern Rivers. There were 14 new cases in the Hunter with the premier flagging the region's one-week lockdown is likely to be extended.

Two cases were detected in Dubbo in the same household overnight prompting a snap lockdown from 1pm today. The stay at home order also includes Wellington, Wongarbon, Geurie, Brocklehurst, Stuart Town, Mumbil and Eumungerie.

Read our Wednesday morning updates below.

Originally published as NSW Covid Updates: 344 new cases, two deaths