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Western and south-west Sydney continue to generate the majority of NSW’s new Covid cases, but other regions of Sydney are at risk of being classified an LGA of concern and placed under tighter restrictions including a curfew if local cases worsen.
There were 231 new cases in Canterbury-Bankstown, 225 in Cumberland, 152 in Blacktown, 81 in Liverpool and 69 in Fairfield – with these LGAs recording the highest transmission.
Related: NSW Covid update: health staff redirected from hotel quarantine to stressed hospital system
Read the original article at The Guardian