NSW has recorded 77 new local COVID-19 cases as the state’s treasurer admits lockdown will likely be extended and more government assistance will be needed. One person has also died, the first COVID-19 death of the current outbreak. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said that of the 77 new cases in the 24 hours to 8 p.m. on Saturday, only 32 were in isolation for the entirety of their infectious period. The person who died was a southwest Sydney woman in her 90s. She was a close contact of a locally-acquired case and was deemed virus-positive on Saturday. She is the first person to die since the Bondi cluster emerged on June 16, and the 57th person in NSW to die since the start of the pandemic in early 2020. The woman is also the first person to catch COVID-19 locally in Australia in 2021 and die. “Over 50 of the …