A man has been charged after a healthcare worker was allegedly assaulted while working at a COVID-19 testing site in Sydney's northwest earlier this week.
NSW has reported 262 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 and at least 72 of those people were circulating in the community for all or part of their infectious period.
Five people have died and 319 new COVID-19 cases have been recorded in NSW, as the nation's top doctor calls for a circuit breaker to halt the virus' spread.
NSW has reported 170 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 as authorities chastise a western Sydney man who caught the virus, failed to self-isolate and visited another house.
