The Blayney Local Government Area now has five active cases after a further two were added to its total on Sunday, the recording period to 8pm on Saturday night.

Neither of the new Blayney cases were infectious in the community, however, the Cabonne case, which has been identified as being in Cudal, was.

The Cudal case is a close contact of a previous Orange case. The Orange and Blayney cases have known links to previously confirmed cases too.

Across the Western NSW Local Health District, 32 new cases were picked up with 23 of those in Dubbo. There were three more in Bourke and another in Narromine, accounting for the region's total.

Across the state, 1485 new coronavirus cases on Sunday as the state reached another vaccination milestone.

Three more people have died of COVID-19 in western and south-western Sydney, including a woman in her 50s who had received one dose of a vaccine.

The other fatalities were an unvaccinated man in his 70s and an unvaccinated woman in her 70s.

NSW reached 40 per cent double-dose vaccination in people aged 16 and over on Saturday. More than 73 per cent of the over-16 population have received one dose.

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