The two death were a woman in her 70s at Nepean hospital, and a woman in her 80s in Western Sydney, bringing the total COVID related deaths in New South Wales since 16 June to 83, and to 139 in total for the pandemic.

Hospitalisations remain high, with NSW Deputy Chief Health Officer Jeremy McNulty confirming 778 patients with COVID are currently in hospital, 125 of those are in intensive care and 52 require ventilation.

Of the 125 in intensive care, 110 are not vaccinated, 14 have had their first dose of the vaccine, and one person has two doses of vaccine.

Health Minister Brad Hazzard commended the state on a record-breaking day of vaccinations with 156,165 vaccines administered in 24 hours on Friday, 61,778 people at state hubs and 94,387 at either a GP or a pharmacist.

Health Minister Brad Hazzard confirmed state vaccine hubs recorded their highest number of vaccines to date on Friday.

He also announced good news for couples looking to tie the knot, with the ban on weddings to lift from Friday, next week.

"For a number of weeks now, we have had no capacity for people to get married," he said.

"A decision has been taken that in a balanced sense, we have to be able to allow people who want to get married to get married, so as from 12:01am Friday this coming week, couples who wish to marry will be able to marry, but with minimal guests in attendance."

"There will be five guests allowed in addition to those who obviously will be necessary for the actual service, so those officiating and perhaps a photographer to record the event."

"We will work through that during the course of the week, but I want people to know that if you do wish to get married, you certainly can as of Friday of [next] week."

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