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Today there are 41 COVID-19 positive patients in hospital in Northern NSW, with none of these in ICU.

To 4pm yesterday, 8 May, 296 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Northern NSW Local Health District, including 60 positive PCR tests and 236 positive rapid antigen tests (RAT)**.

Confirmed tests by LGA (PCR and RAT included):

  • Ballina 67
  • Byron 31
  • Clarence Valley 42
  • Kyogle 5
  • Lismore 44
  • Richmond Valley 27
  • Tweed 80

The NSW Health website has a range of COVID-19 information, including weekly COVID-19 surveillance reports which contain detailed analysis and trends.

You can also find more COVID-19 statistics on the NSW Government website.

If you have even mild symptoms or have had known contact with a COVID-19 case, please get tested as soon as you can. Please isolate while awaiting a negative result.

If you test positive using a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT), please register your result with Service NSW.

To protect yourself and others:

  • don’t go out if you’re unwell
  • take your mask with you so you can wear it if you’re somewhere you can’t socially distance, especially indoors, and
  • use hand sanitiser or wash your hands regularly.

** RAT results may be from within the previous seven days, and there may be some cases included in these numbers where people have reported positive RATs on multiple days and/or where people have also had a positive PCR test during the same reporting period.

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