The man s death comes amid reports the majority of sick Covid patients in intensive care units or on ventilators have been struck down by the Delta variant which swept the nation in mid-2021.
NSW has recorded it first death linked to the Omicron COVID-19 variant, amid a surge of cases that has seen the number of people hospitalised across the state double.
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