Newcastle, Hunter joins lockdown as five deaths and 262 COVID-19 cases recorded in NSW

Kim Chappell
Updated August 5 2021 - 11:48am, first published 11:15am
Photo: Fiile
Photo: Fiile

The NSW Hunter Valley will go into a one week lockdown from 5pm today as Sydney's COVID outbreak spreads to the regions.

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Kim Chappell

Kim Chappell

Senior Producer - Digital

As Senior Producer - Digital for ACM's regional titles I assist newsrooms in digital best practice. Before this role, I was the digital journalist with ACM's national team and prior to that, the digital specialist with ACM's Agricultural division. I started as a general rounds journalist with The Land in 2006, moving up to hold the title of chief of staff before switching to digital reporting in 2015.