SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), on Thursday reported its biggest daily rise in locally acquired cases of COVID-19 for the year so far, as total infections in the latest outbreak neared 400.
Thirty-eight new local cases were reported in NSW, compared with 27 a day earlier. Of Thursday’s cases, 26 were either in isolation throughout or for part of their infectious period, while 11 spent time in the community while they were infectious.
(Reporting by Renju Jose; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
