Daily COVID-19 Update 25 October 2021: NSW and Victoria

New South Wales recorded 294 new cases of community transmission, meanwhile Victoria recorded 1461 new locally acquired cases. Source: Getty Images

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The latest news on the current Delta strain outbreak affecting regional NSW and Victoria's Indigenous communities.

New South Wales recorded 294 new locally acquired cases
Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley acknowledged the state's gap in vaccination rates between Indigenous people and the overall population
Regional Victoria recorded 252 new cases

NSW

New South Wales recorded 294 new cases of community transmission to 8pm last night, and four deaths, including an unvaccinated person in their 40s.

The Hunter New England Local Health District recorded 59 new cases, the most of any of the state’s health districts in the reporting period. There were 19 in Newcastle, 16 in Lake Macquarie, 7 in Cessnock, 6 in Port Stephens, 4 in Maitland, 2 in Armidale, 1 in MidCoast, 1 in Singleton, 1 in Dungog, 1 in Tamworth and 1 in Moree.

The Western NSW Local Health District had 6 new cases — 5 in Bathurst and 1 in Orange.

The Far West Local Health District saw 5 new cases — 4 in Gol Gol and 1 in Broken Hill.

Victoria

In Victoria there were 1461 new locally acquired cases to midnight last night, and seven deaths, including a woman in her 20s.

Regional Victoria recorded 252 new cases overnight, including 36 in Wodonga, 32 in Shepparton, 31 in Geelong, 26 in Latrobe and 13 in Mildura. There are now 279 active cases across Greater Shepparton, and 206 in Mildura.

Here's the full breakdown of today's case numbers across regional Victoria's LGAs -

Ballarat 10
Bass Coast 2
Baw Baw 21
Benalla 4
Bendigo 8
Campaspe 2
Central Goldfields 1
Corangamite 4
East Gippsland 9
Gannawarra 1
Geelong 31
Hepburn 2
Latrobe 26
Loddon 1
Macedon Ranges 8
Mildura 13
Mitchell Shire 5
Moorabool 6
Mount Alexander 5
Moyne 1
Shepparton 32
South Gippsland 1
Swan Hill 1
Towong 1
Wangaratta 11
Wellington 9
Wodonga 36

Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley today acknowledged the significant gap between vaccination rates for Victoria’s Indigenous population compared to the overall rate of vaccination in the state.

Foley said that according to their data, 58% of Indigenous Victorians are fully-vaccinated compared to 74.7% among the overall population, a difference of a little under 17%.

To combat this, Foley assured Victorians that the government will be working closely with organisations such as the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service in order to continue to provide culturally safe vaccination services both across the regions and in metropolitan Melbourne.

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