Orange recorded another case of community transmission on Tuesday, that case among a total of 27 in the Western NSW Local Health District.
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The new case in Orange is a household contact of a previous COVID-19 case.
The 24-hour recording period to 8pm on Monday night, the death of an Aboriginal elder in Dubbo was also included. In total there was eight deaths in NSW in that period.
Case-wise, NSW had 1220 new cases of COVID-19.
Western's total was heavily back-ended by Dubbo, the Western NSW LHD major centre adding 18 to its total while more cases were recorded in Bourke (three), Narromine (three), Walgett (one) and Brewarrina (one).
There were no new cases identified in Blayney or the Cabonne shires.
Tuesday marked Orange's fourth consecutive day recording a case of COVID-19, while Bathurst has now had a run of three days without a single case, with both centres now making the most of vaccination hubs.
Of the new locally acquired cases reported to 8pm last night:
- 422 are from Western Sydney Local Health District
- 392 are from South Western Sydney LHD
- 128 are from Sydney LHD
- 89 are from South Eastern Sydney LHD
- 74 are from Nepean Blue Mountains LHD
- 27 are from Western NSW LHD
- 22 are from Central Coast LHD
- 20 are from Northern Sydney LHD
- 14 are from Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD
- seven are from Hunter New England LHD
- seven are in correctional settings
- four are from Far West LHD
- two are from Southern NSW LHD
- 12 cases are yet to be assigned to an LHD.
NSW Health announced the deaths of eight people who had COVID-19, including an unvaccinated woman in her 70s at Dubbo Hospital.
The deaths brought the state's toll to 139 since June.
NSW has 1151 COVID-19 cases in hospital, including 192 in intensive care and 75 requiring ventilation.
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