Tamworth has smashed coronavirus records, registering the highest number of cases ever in the city the first statistics recorded in the pandemic's third year.
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There were 53 cases recorded in the city in the last numbers of 2021, which cover to 8pm New Year's Eve.
They were among 1,811 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Hunter New England region. Almost all cases are mild, with just 45 people infected with coronavirus being cared for in hospitals, and only three of them in an intensive care unit.
Case numbers also escalated in a number of other communities around the region.
There were 37 new cases in Narrabri, 31 in Moree, 20 in Armidale, nine in Walcha, eight in the Upper Hunter, and 45 in Singleton.
Tenterfield recorded one case with Gunnedah, Inverell, Liverpool Plains and Uralla recording two each.
All told, there were a record 22,577 new cases of COVID-19 and five deaths recorded in the Saturday statistics, across the state.
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Andrew Messenger
Politics, environment and energy journalist at the Northern Daily Leader. I also write about health, bushfires and occasionally music. I'm a Brisbane boy by way of Charleville and Hobart who now lives in in beautiful New England. Get me at andrew.messenger@austcommunitymedia.com.au
Politics, environment and energy journalist at the Northern Daily Leader. I also write about health, bushfires and occasionally music. I'm a Brisbane boy by way of Charleville and Hobart who now lives in in beautiful New England. Get me at andrew.messenger@austcommunitymedia.com.au
