NSW records 633 new COVID-19 cases & Three deaths

New South Wales has recorded 633 new COVID-19 cases and three deaths to 8pm yesterday, another grim milestone and new daily record for case numbers.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian gave a warning with the new figures – saying the cases will rise again.

"What the data is telling us in the last few days is that we haven't seen the worst of it," Ms Berejiklian said.

“At the moment, according to the data we have, every person who has the virus is spreading it to at least more than one person,” she said. “Now, for us to know that we have reached our peak, that can’t continue.

“You cannot get the virus if you do not have contact with other people. “You have to assume, no matter where you are in the state, that every time you set foot out of your door, that you have the virus or anybody you’re in contact with has the virus.”

Deaths including a male in his late 60s who was in Liverpool Hospital who wasn’t vaccinated, two males in their late 70s who both passed await at Nepean Hospital. One was vaccinated and one only received one dose of vaccine.

More than 102,000 tests were received in the past 24 hours.

There are 462 people with COVID-19 in NSW hospitals, 77 of them are in intensive care with 25 of those on ventilators. 

There have now been 60 deaths linked to the Delta outbreak that began in June, and 116 in NSW since the start of the pandemic.

Police found at least 400 examples yesterday of people who had left their homes while they were supposed to be isolating.

One man was given a $5,000 fine after telling police he was putting the bins out, but had in fact left his property.

"Imagine if out of those hundreds and hundreds of people doing the wrong thing, a couple have a virus and going around the community spreading it, that sets all of us back," Ms Berejiklian said.

Police issued 736 penalty infringement notices yesterday to people breaching the public health orders.

The Premier said people should not be travelling further than 5 kilometres from their home.

"Stay at home, don't break the rules, everybody knows what they mean," she said.