COVID-19 update: NSW cases grow, SA on track to end lockdown

This is your update on the Coronavirus in Australia for 24 July 2021.

Protesters march along Broadway and George St towards Sydney Town Hall during the ‘World Wide Rally For Freedom’ anti-lockdown rally at Hyde Park in Sydney, Saturday, July 24, 2021. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Protesters march along Broadway during the World Wide Rally For Freedom anti-lockdown rally at Hyde Park in Sydney, Saturday, July 24, 2021. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas

NSW cases on the rise.
Anti-lockdown protesters march in Sydney and Melbourne.
Victoria declares all of NSW a COVID-19 "extreme risk zone”.
South Australia is on track to end week-long lockdown.

New South Wales

NSW has recorded 163 new locally acquired cases, the highest number of daily new infections since the Delta outbreak began in June. NSW Police issued 246 fines to people for breaching public health orders. The death toll of the current Delta outbreak is now six.

Heightened restrictions are now in place for two addition local government areas in western Sydney, Cumberland and Blacktown. Only

authorised workers

can leave these areas.

Find here, the updated

list of exposure sites

Victoria

Victoria has recorded 12 new locally acquired cases, with only two in the community while infectious.

Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton made the "extreme risk zone" declaration for all of NSW late on Friday, effective from 11.59pm

Find here, the

locations of the cases

in a list or a map. The current lockdown will be extended until 11:59 pm on Tuesday, 27 July.

Last 24 hours around Australia

SA Premier Steven Marshall says the state is on track and likely to come out of lockdown on Tuesday with schools opening on Wednesday .
Prime Minister Scott Morrison can't commit to an immediate increase of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines for New South Wales.
Thousands of anti-lockdown protesters breached COVID-19 restrictions and gathered in Sydney and Melbourne.

COVID-19 MYTH:

Healthy young people are not affected by COVID-19. It only harms and kills old or sick people.

COVID-19 FACT:

The virus impacts older people and those with underlying conditions more heavily, but also harms and kills some healthy young people.

Quarantine, travel, testing clinics and pandemic disaster payment

Quarantine and testing requirements are managed and enforced by state and territory governments:

NSW

and

VIC

and

ACT

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and

QLD

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and

TAS

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If you want to travel overseas, you may be able to apply online for an exemption.

Click here

for more information about the conditions to leave Australia. There are temporary measures for international flights that are regularly reviewed by the government and updated on the

Smart Traveller

website.