In the 24 hours to 8:00 pm on Tuesday, 212 new coronavirus cases were confirmed in NSW, taking the state’s total to 1029.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said most of those cases had been infected overseas or after direct contact with someone who had been overseas.
“That tells us to an extent that we are maintaining some control over the virus,” she said.
The state has recorded its first two cases of coronavirus in children under 10, after a two-month-old boy and seven-year-old girl tested positive on Tuesday.
NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant made the announcement during a morning press conference alongside the Premier.
Chant said the cases were not linked, and that both had contact with confirmed adult cases.
She said they were now isolating at home with minimal symptoms.
Yesterday a woman in her 70s, who contracted the virus on the Ruby Princess cruise ship, became the seventh coronavirus-related death in NSW and the eighth fatality in Australia.
