| COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales | |
|---|---|
| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | New South Wales, Australia |
| First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| Index case | 19-01-2020 |
| Confirmed cases | 4,115,928 (as of 3 November 2023) |
| Active cases | 1,637 (as of 3 November 2023) |
| Hospitalised cases | 733 (as of 3 November 2023) |
| Critical cases | 12 (as of 3 November 2023) |
| Recovered | 4,106,444 (as of 3 November 2023) |
Deaths | 7,748 [a] (as of 3 November 2023) |
| Fatality rate | 0.19% |
| Government website | |
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The COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales, Australia was part of the worldwide pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first confirmed case in New South Wales was identified on 19 January 2020 in Sydney where three travellers returning from Wuhan, Hubei, China, tested positive for the virus.[1][2][3]
As of 1 April 2022[update], there had been over 1,863,186 confirmed cases in NSW: 1,149,142 confirmed cases from PCR testing, and nearly 714,044 positive rapid antigen tests (RAT) since mid-January 2022.[4] 17,509,209 vaccines have been administered.[4]
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- ^ Doherty, Ben (25 January 2020). "Coronavirus: three cases in NSW and one in Victoria as infection reaches Australia". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ Cunningham, Melissa; McCauley, Dana (25 January 2020). "Coronavirus spreads across Australia amid scramble to find more cases". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ Drevikovsky, Janek; Chung, Laura (25 January 2020). "Two probable coronavirus cases in NSW". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 25 January 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ a b New South Wales Government (2022). "COVID-19 in NSW - up to 4pm 1 April 2022". NSW Health.
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