MELBOURNE – Australia has reported its first locally contracted coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) death this year.
The authorities said a woman, in her 90s, died in Sydney. She had contracted the virus in a family setting.
New South Wales (NSW) reported 77 new cases on Sunday. There are now 52 people in hospital, with 15 in intensive care unit.
Sydney is currently in lockdown, as Australia’s largest city fights to contain the highly transmissible Delta strain of the virus.
The reported death is the state’s 57th and the first in 10 months.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned that the number of new daily infections would rise further.
“I’ll be shocked if it’s less than 100,” she said at a briefing on Sunday.(BBC)
