NSW reports 10,130 cases, 24 deaths in the past 24 hours as hospital visit rules ease

NSW has recorded another 24 Covid-19 deaths and 10,130 new cases in the past 24 hours.

Thursday’s update from NSW Health shows there are 1795 Covid patients in hospital, withxjmtzyw 121 in intensive care.

More than 10,000 positive tests were recorded in the last 24 hours.

This included 5824 results from rapid antigen tests and 4306 from PCR tests.

More than 45 per cent of eligible people in New South Wales have had a third vaccine dose.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has personally apologised to Sydney woman Gayle Roberts who was forced to wait outside a hospital as her mother died alone inside. Credit: Supplied

The NSW government will on Thursday relax Covid hospital visitation rules following a backlash from families blocked from seeing dying relatives during the state’s Omicron surge.

Premier Dominic Perrottet on Wednesday said changes to limits on visitors would help reunite families restricted from seeing loved ones in hospitals for almost two months.

Most pandemic restrictions are set to be scrapped on February 27 with health authorities also reviewing when non-urgent elective surgery can resume at public hospitals.