Australia's New South Wales reports record COVID-19 cases for second day
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New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, reported record new COVID-19 infections for the second straight day on Friday as state capital Sydney neared its seventh week of a hard lockdown to contain an outbreak of the Delta variant.
New South Wales reported 291 locally acquired cases of COVID-19, most of them in Sydney, exceeding the previous daily high of 262 hit a day earlier.
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