Live Covid updates NSW: Coronavirus outbreak grows in NSW

The NSW Premier has revealed when she expects cases will finally start to drop, but only if transmissions are reduced in two key areas.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says her tougher new lockdown rules will have an effect on case numbers in a matter of days, but only if transmissions are reduced in two key areas.

She said New South Wales recorded new 98 cases of community transmission.

Twenty of those were infectious in the community, and to end the lockdown she said that specific figure needed to come down.

She said transmission between family homes and at workplace work places needed to also come down.

"I am convinced if we work together, we will see that number go down, we will not see the effect of the harsh restrictions for another four or five days," she said. "But I know they are there to be had of all of us stick together and work hard."

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