New South Wales is just hours away from likely hearing the Greater Sydney lockdown will be extended.
Yesterday NSW reported 89 COVID-19 cases and another death, the second fatality of the current outbreak which began in Bondi, in the city's eastern suburbs.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said she expected case numbers to "bounce around" over the next week, and to not read anything into the drop from Monday's 112 cases.
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Some experts have predicted the lockdown, now in week three, could last for two months.
There is also speculation the federal and NSW government assistance packages announced last night has been predicated on the lockdown running for a further four weeks.
"I would love to say exactly when the end date will be but that is up to all of us, in part," Ms Berejiklian said yesterday.
Cases have climbed as the Delta variant has swept through households, particularly in Sydney's south-west.
Health officials are concerned about a possible spread into regional NSW, with a fresh case detected yesterday in Goulburn, 200 kilometres south-west of Sydney.
That development led a raft of tough new testing measures focused on Fairfield, in Sydney's south-west, and essential workers travelling outside of Greater Sydney.
Ms Berejiklian is scheduled to announce case numbers and a potential lockdown update at 11am (AEST).
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