COVID-19 cases have been on the decline over the last seven days with the exception of one outlier state, South Australia, which saw a huge jump in both cases and recorded deaths.
Nationally, there were 16,823 cases of COVID-19 in the last seven days, averaging 2403 a day.
Find the state-by-state breakdown below:
NSW had a total of 6440 COVID-19 cases this week, averaging 920 cases per day.
Last week, the state had 6567 cases, seeing on average 18 more daily cases compared to this week.
There were 62 deaths recorded, 26 less than the previous week.
Hospitalisations have also dropped from 1032 to 931, with 24 patients in the ICU.
Victoria recorded 2941 cases, seeing a small decline compared to the previous week.
The average number of daily cases has slightly decreased from 436 to 420.
There has been an average of seven deaths per day over the last week, totaling 52, a decrease from 70 last week.
Queensland reported a drop in daily COVID-19 cases, now averaging 552 over the last week, compared to 585 the week before.
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In total, there were 3866 new cases this week, down from 4094.
There are 183 people in hospital, with six in the ICU.
There have been 33 deaths reported.
In contrast, South Australia case numbers have increased, recording 1495 over the last week compared to the previous week’s 1286 cases.
However, hospitalisations have decreased from 65 to 52.
There was a huge increase in deaths this week, with 94 recorded: 80 more than last week.
There were 160 new cases in the Northern Territory this week.
Thirteen people are in the hospital, with no one reported to be in the ICU.
No deaths were reported in the territory during the last seven days.
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