Australia COVID cases update: Kerry Chant warns COVID patients are more infectious BEFORE they have symptoms

The number of people hospitalised with COVID-19 in NSW has passed 1000 as the state records two more deaths and 18,278 new infections.

There are now 1066 people hospitalised with the virus with 83 in intensive care, 24 of whom require ventilation.

At the peak of the Delta outbreak, on September…