The New South Wales (NSW) government has reported 1,035 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 and two deaths as the Delta strain continues to spread through the locked down state. NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard says 61,778 people received a vaccine in the 24 hours to 8 p.m. on Friday night. “As we have said many times, vaccination is a critical path out of our current situation,” he told reporters on Saturday. The two people who died were a western Sydney woman in her 80s in Westmead Hospital and another in her 70s from the Blue Mountains who died at Nepean Hospital after acquiring her infection there earlier this month. It’s the fourth death linked to an outbreak at the hospital. The fatalities take the state’s death toll for the current outbreak to 83. There are currently 778 COVID-19 cases in NSW hospitals, with 125 in intensive care, and 52 …