Teenage boy dies in hospital a day after being pulled from NSW's Hawkesbury River

Surf Life Saving NSW says enthusiasm for the water after a year dominated by Covid has resulted in a spike in drownings

A teenage boy has died a day after he was pulled from the Hawkesbury River north-west of Sydney as the national summer drowning toll approaches 60.

Emergency services were called to the river at Sackville on Monday about midday and the unresponsive 16-year-old was pulled from the water.