In today’s Covid update, the Lismore App sadly reports that one Lismore resident with Covid has died in the past 24 hours.

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This Covid-related death is one of two reported in the Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWLHD) – with the other person residing in the Tweed area. Both were aged in their 80s and 90s.

In the same 24 hour period, the local district also recorded 464 new cases of Covid – with 19 of them in Lismore.

There are 46 Covid positive patients in hospital in Northern NSW, with 5 of these in ICU.

The breakdown of new cases in our district is as follows:

Lismore 19, Tweed 96, Clarence Valley 48, Ballina 33, Byron 29, Kyogle 1, Richmond Valley 8.

The new cases are a result of 234 positive PCR tests and 330 positive rapid antigen tests (RAT).

These RAT results may be from within the previous seven days, and there may be some cases included in these numbers where people have reported positive RATs on multiple days and/or where people have also had a positive PCR test during the same reporting period.

NSW statistics

Across NSW, there were 15,091 positive test results (cases) notified to 8pm last night – including 6,901 positive rapid antigen tests (RATs) and 8,190 positive PCR tests.

There were also 24 deaths of people with COVID-19; 16 men and eight women. Two were aged in their 50s, one in their 60s, two in their 70s, 12 in their 80s and seven in their 90s.

Two people had received three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, 16 people had received two doses, three people had received one dose and three people were not vaccinated.

Of the two people who died aged under 65, both were men who had serious underlying health conditions.

One man had received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine and one had received three doses.

There are currently 2,816 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, including 196 people in intensive care, 69 of whom require ventilation.

Vaccination update

 Across NSW, more than 95 per cent of people aged 16 and over have received a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 93.9 per cent have received two doses.

Of people aged 12 to 15, 82.7 per cent have received a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 78.4 per cent have received two doses. Of people aged 5 to 11, 28 per cent have received a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Get tested

NNSWLHD is urging people to get tested for COVID-19 at the first sign of symptoms and isolate until a negative result is received.

Anyone who tests positive using a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) are now required to register their result with Service NSW.

Registering your RAT result enables NSW Health to provide advice on self-isolation and managing COVID-19 symptoms at home and connect high risk people to clinical care services.

Everyone who is eligible is encouraged to book into a NSW Health vaccination clinic or another provider without delay through the COVID-19 vaccine clinic finder.

Booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine are now available for people aged 18 and over who had their second dose at least four months ago.

NSW Health vaccination clinics are now administering the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to children aged five to 11 years old.

Parents and caregivers are encouraged to make a booking for vaccination at any NSW Health vaccination clinic, at a general practitioner, or a community pharmacy.

If you are seeking data, you can search cases by postcode on the NSW Government website.

For the most up-to-date COVID information visit http://nsw.gov.au