Here are the latest COVID-19 deaths and daily case numbers for each state and territory, as reported by the relevant health authorities throughout the day:
NSW:
* Five deaths in the 24 hours to 4pm Wednesday (bringing the total number of COVID-19 related deaths in NSW since the beginning of the pandemic to 2001)
* 20,087 new cases
* 1036 hospitalisations, including 34 in ICU, 17 are ventilated
VICTORIA:
* Seven deaths in the 24 hours to midnight Wednesday
* 9752 new cases
* 197 hospitalisations, including 23 in ICU and four on ventilators
TASMANIA:
* 1859 new cases reported for Wednesday
* 25 hospitalisations, including three in ICU
ACT:
* 1311 new cases reported for Wednesday
* 39 hospitalisations, including three in intensive care and one on a ventilator
QUEENSLAND:
* 10 deaths reported in the 24 hours to 6.30am on Thursday
* 7190 new cases
* 263 hospitalisations, including 19 in ICU
SA:
* to come
NT:
* 241 new cases to 8pm on Wednesday
* 23 hospitalisations, including two in ICU
WA:
* 7151 new cases over the past 24 hours
* One death reported, a woman in her 80s
* 140 people in hospital with four in ICU
* Total active cases grow to 31,211
