COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales

COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales
DiseaseCOVID-19
Virus strainSARS-CoV-2
LocationNew South Wales, Australia
First outbreakWuhan, Hubei, China
Index case19-01-2020
Confirmed cases4,115,928 (as of 3 November 2023)
Active cases1,637 (as of 3 November 2023)
Hospitalised cases733 (as of 3 November 2023)
Critical cases12 (as of 3 November 2023)
Recovered4,106,444 (as of 3 November 2023)
Deaths
7,748 [a]
(as of 3 November 2023)
Fatality rate0.19%
Government website
www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/
www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/2021-nsw-health.aspx

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, 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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  1. ^ Doherty, Ben (25 January 2020). "Coronavirus: three cases in NSW and one in Victoria as infection reaches Australia". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b New South Wales Government (2022). "COVID-19 in NSW - up to 4pm 1 April 2022". NSW Health.