NSW Covid updates: 124 new Covid cases, 48 infectious in community

Thursday wrap-up: Scott Morrison apologised for the slow vaccine rollout and NSW recorded 124 new Covid cases with 48 infectious in the community.

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The NSW Premier expects the state's daily Covid case figures to rise further after 124 new cases were detected on another record day of testing.

Of the new cases - detected from 85,000 swabs - 48 were infectious in the community. Fifty-four were recorded from Sydney's southwest and 40 were in the West.

Gladys Berejiklian issued a stark warning on Thursday, saying she expects "case numbers to go up even higher".

The premier also said infection spillover from Fairfield into neighbouring LGAs had already begun.

"Unfortunately, our fears of having spillover from the Fairfield local government area and all the suburbs in that local government area into the Canterbury-Bankstown local government area and into the Cumberland local government area have proven to be materialising or proven to be occurring," Ms Berejiklian said.

There are 118 people battling Covid in hospital with 28 in the ICU and 14 on ventilation. Fifteen people admitted to hospital are aged under 35.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologised for the vaccine rollout being held up, and announced the rollout of AstraZeneca vaccine in pharmacies would be brought forward.

NSW recorded 124 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night. pic.twitter.com/4y3TvoDUpF

— NSW Health (@NSWHealth) July 22, 2021

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Originally published as NSW Covid updates: 124 new Covid cases, 48 infectious in community

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