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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Simon McCarthy

Another death in the Lower Hunter as district records highest number of new COVID cases

The Hunter New England local health district has again recorded the largest number of new cases of COVID-19 in the state, as the region's outbreak adds 1181 new cases, exceeding Western Sydney's outbreak for a second day.

It comes as the health district reports another person from the Lower Hunter has died with COVID-19, taking the state's toll to 1693 after 32 people died with the virus in NSW overnight.

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