New South Wales recorded 77 new community cases of Covid-19 yesterday, 33 of whom are believed to have been out and about while infectious. Sadly, a woman in her 90s became the first person to die in Australia from Covid-19 in 10 months. Speaking to media yesterday, the state's premier, Gladys Berejiklian, signalled that with case numbers continuing to rise sharply it's unlikely that the lockdown will end on Friday as planned. The Head of the University of Melbourne's school of population and global health, Nancy Baxter, told our producer Matthew Theunissen that she expects it to be a month before Sydney comes out of lockdown. Among the 5.3 million or so Sydney siders is RNZ's Alice Murray, who arrived in the city about two-and-a-half weeks ago to sort out her uncle's affairs after he passed away last year.
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