Sydney, Sep 20 (TIWN) As the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) saw another drop in the single-day acquired Covid-19 cases, authorities in the country's epicentre of the pandemic have cautiously pointed at a downward trend in the current Delta outbreak.

NSW recorded 935 new locally acquired cases in the last 24 hours, marking the first time that new daily cases have dropped below 1,000 since August 27, reports Xinhua news agency.  Despite the tapering of new infections, the number of Covid-19 hospitalisations in the state's intensive care units (ICU) continued to grow, with 236 patients currently in ICU up from 234 on Sunday.