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Premier Gladys Berejiklian is due to announce the latest coronavirus figures in New South Wales. NSW recorded a new daily high of 262 local coronavirus cases on Thursday. Join Sky News Australia live at 11am.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian told residents to prepare themselves for"higher case numbers in the next few days" as she announced the second record-breaking day in her state on Friday, after 262 infections on Thursday.

"I do want to foreshadow that given this high number of cases, we are likely to see this trend continue for the next few days," she said.NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is seen during a daily COVID update. Photo: Brook Mitchell/Getty Images Of the new local cases, 120 are linked to a known case or cluster with 95 being household contacts and 25 identified as close contacts.NSW Health said 91 cases were in isolation throughout their infectious period and 48 were in isolation for part of their infectious period.The 291 cases on Friday mark a new record in NSW since the coronavirus pandemic first begun.

The previous record this year was 262 on Thursday. In 2020, when COVID first ripped through Australia, NSW's daily record was 212. There are currently 304 COVID cases in hospital, with 50 people in intensive care and 22 of those on ventilators.

 

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Maybe she’ll resign and it’ll be worth watching?

BREAKING NEWS: Unnamed Specialist makes astonishing diagnosis across all aspects of politics and epidemiology. Rampant Munchhausen's by Proxy has now been established, entire Australian population recipients of this dire advice. Medical expert from somewhere, not sure where, at 6

Perspective is important in times like these. The media is hyperbolic. Death hurts and it's tragic but it's part of life. We don't stop driving because it's killed more people in 12 months opposed to the 18 months of covid in Aus.

Apparently dumb shutdowns don't help

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