The Delta strain outbreak continues its hold on NSW with more than 200 cases and the death of an elderly man announced on Monday morning.
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Premier Gladys Berejiklian confirmed a record 117,000 tests were carried out in NSW on Sunday, with 207 cases emerging across the state to 8pm yesterday.
Of those positive cases, "at least 50" were infectious while in the community.
The main form of transmission is between workplaces and households, the premier said.
Monday's announcement comes after 239 cases were revealed on Sunday, and 210 on Saturday.
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A man in his 90s has died in Liverpool Hospital, the 15th COVID-related death in the current outbreak. There have been 71 pandemic-related deaths in the state since the beginning of the pandemic.
"He had received one dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine in April," Dr Kerry Chant said, offering condolences to the man's family.
It brings the total cases connected to the outbreak, which emerged in mid-June, to 3634.
The premier pleaded with the state to help break records for vaccination numbers this month to secure the state's 'ticket to freedom'.
"One dose itself reduces your chance of spreading the virus but it also keeps you out of hospital," Ms Berejiklian said on Sunday.
"We know that vaccination is working against this terrible Delta strain."
However reports of first Pfizer vaccination appointments being cancelled in the Riverina emerged over the weekend, as the state diverts supplies from its clinics to Sydney to facilitate getting Year 12 students back in the classroom.
NSW Health said Pfizer supplies to GPs won't be interrupted, as they are provided by the federal government, and AstraZeneca is available in state clinics and a growing number of pharmacies.
Those who have already had their first Pfizer vaccine, as well as those in the 1a and 1b priority groups, will not be be affected.
Wagga MP Joe McGirr supported sharing vaccines with the Year 12 rollout, saying it was the right thing to do while the priority is to keep the virus out of regional NSW.
Meanwhile, Griffith-based Shooters Fishers and Farmers Murray MP Helen Dalton slammed the decision, claiming it devalued rural people and will not stop the virus spreading to regional NSW.
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Her party colleague, Orange MP Phil Donato, has launched a petition in protest against the redirections.
"Our limited Pfizer supplies are still needed out here where many people await their first dose, just as they need them in Sydney," he wrote in a recent letter-to-the-editor.
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