* There has been a surge of COVID-19 infections in NSW with 110 new local cases recorded. At least 60 of those people were circulating in the community for part or all of their infectious period.

* NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian tried to quell concerns about the number of new cases spiking to triple figures - compared to 78 from the previous day - saying it reflected a record number of daily tests.

* People in the central-western town of Orange and its surrounds are in their first full day of a seven-day lockdown after a COVID-19 positive delivery driver from Sydney visited the area and infected another person.

* Victoria is "on track" to suppress its latest coronavirus outbreak despite a spike in new cases.

* The state recorded 22 new locally-acquired infections on Wednesday morning, all of which are linked to known outbreaks.

* Health Minister Martin Foley said 16 of the cases were isolating while infectious, and the remaining six pose a low risk to the community as they visited few exposure sites.

* To help soften the blow of the seven-day lockdown extension, the Victorian government is offering an additional $282.5 million in grants to 90,000 businesses.

* South Australia has reported one new case plus an additional six on Wednesday, taking its COVID cluster to 12 on the first full day of a week-long statewide lockdown.

* Of the six additional cases, which will be included in Thursday's figures, five are linked to an Adelaide winery and the other to a Greek restaurant in the city.

* In Western Australia, three crew members from a coronavirus-infected cargo ship have been moved to hotel quarantine in Perth after 10 of their colleagues tested positive.

* Queensland will declare parts of regional NSW a hotspot from 1am on Thursday as the state works to prevent the Delta strain spreading from locked down areas around Australia.

* Scott Morrison has appealed for Australia's expert immunisation panel to change its AstraZeneca vaccine age recommendation.

* National wage subsidies will not be reintroduced despite millions of workers losing pay cheques as coronavirus lockdowns sweep Australia.

* The prime minister is adamant weekly disaster payments of between $375 and $600 will provide rapid support to people suffering hardship during outbreaks.

AUSTRALIAN VACCINATION NUMBERS:

* There have been 10,470,033 doses administered in the national COVID-19 vaccination rollout up to Tuesday, including 174,589 in the previous 24 hours.

* Those figures are made up of 7,448,618 first doses (36.12 per cent of Australians 16 and over) and 2,994,218 second doses (14.52 per cent).

* Of the total, 5,909,786 have been administered by the Commonwealth, including 102,842 in the previous 24 hours.

* 4,560,247 have been administered by the states and territories, including 71,747 in the previous 24 hours.

* 1,431,625 have been administered in Victoria (+15,102), 1,235,315 in NSW (+23,696), 801,602 in Queensland (+13,566), 419,979 in Western Australia (+8169), 331,603 in South Australia (+6275), 145,229 in Tasmania (+1664), 114,286 in the ACT (+1688) and 80,608 in the NT (+1587).

AUSTRALIAN CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS:

* Australia reported 133 local cases on Tuesday: 110 in NSW, 22 in Victoria and one in SA. That figure does not include six additional cases announced in SA which will be officially tallied on Thursday.

* There were seven new overseas-acquired cases in hotel quarantine: two each in NSW and WA, and one each in Victoria, Queensland and SA.

* The national death toll is 915: Victoria 820, NSW 61, Tasmania 13, WA 9, Queensland 7, SA 4, ACT 3 (Two Queensland residents who died in NSW have been included in the official tolls of both states).

GLOBAL CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS:

* Cases: at least 191,451,690.

* Deaths: at least 4,118,473.

* Vaccine doses administered: at least 3,912,144,148.

Data current as at 1730 AEST on July 21, taking in federal and state/territory government updates and Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre figures.

Australian Associated Press