COVID-19 update: NSW records five deaths and 319 local cases in the last 24 hours, Victoria reports 29 local cases, all of them in the community while infectious

This is your update on the Coronavirus in Australia for 7 August 2021.

NSW Health workers outside an apartment block on Campbell Street in Liverpool, after fourteen cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the building, August 7, 2021. Source: AAP/Bianca De Marchi

LGA of Armidale in NSW will go into a seven-day lockdown from 5pm today
The number of exposure sites across Victoria continues to grow
Queenslanders will have to wait until Sunday to know if the lockdown will be lifted

New South Wales

The New South Wales COVID-19 crisis intensifies after the state recorded 319 new locally acquired cases, with at least 51 of them in the community while infectious.

210 of the 319 cases are in south-west Sydney.

The NSW authorities have also reported five more deaths overnight. None of these five people were vaccinated.

The local government area of Armidale in regional NSW is about to enter into a week-long lockdown from 5pm today until 12:01am on Sunday, August 15.

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list of vaccination clinics

Victoria

Victoria has recorded 29 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases, none in quarantine while infectious. All the cases are linked to current outbreaks.

Health authorities have warned that the number of exposure sites may grow in Victoria. Four schools in Melbourne are now linked to positive cases.

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list of exposure sites

Queensland

Queensland has recorded 13 new locally acquired cases, all linked to the current Indooroopilly cluster. The number of active cases in Queensland is 144.

Chief Health Officer, Doctor Jeannette Young, says she will wait until Sunday morning to see the day’s figures to decide if the southeast’s lockdown will lift as planned, at 4pm on Sunday.

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Quarantine, travel, testing clinics and pandemic disaster payment

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

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VIC

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ACT

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QLD

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TAS

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

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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.