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Surrounded by piles of debris, people in the northern New South Wales city of Lismore have been left to assist each other after floods engulfed thousands of homes.
Since February 28, three days after the NSW mask mandates were relaxed, Covid cases have shot up from 5,856 to Thursday s total of 16,288, up another 3,000 from Wednesday, as a new mutation emerges.
Modelling suggests daily COVID-19 cases in NSW could hit 20,000 to 30,000 in early April, with a more transmissible version of the Omicron variant becoming dominant.