Orange recorded no new cases of COVID-19 to 8pm on Saturday night, meaning the Local Government Area has picked up just one case in the last seven days.
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Collectively, there's been just two cases across Blayney, Cabonne and Orange LGAs in the last week.
One of those was isolated during the virus' infectious period, and the other is a known household contact of a previous case.
Across the Western NSW Local Health District, there was eight new cases to 8pm on Saturday night. Six of those were in Dubbo, two in Walgett.
There was also another death for the district, that being in Dubbo and it's related to an age care facility.
In NSW, more than one in six NSW children aged 12 to 15 received a COVID-19 vaccine dose in the first five days they were available to that age group.
The state recorded 1083 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm on Saturday night, the lowest daily figure in more than three weeks and a substantial drop on the previous day's case count of 1331.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Sunday that 17 per cent of the state's 390,000 children aged 12 to 15 had received a Pfizer dose since vaccines became available to that age group on September 13.
She announced that the government would drop the special restrictions in the 12 areas of concern in Sydney from Monday, except for conditions governing authorised workers and permits.
The restrictions in those areas will now align very closely with rules in the rest of Greater Sydney.
Ms Berejiklian also said public pools would open across NSW from Monday, September 27, the second week of the school holidays.
Vaccination-wise in NSW, 81.9 per cent of the over-16 population has received a first vaccine dose and 51.9 per cent are fully vaccinated. These vaccine rates are to midnight on Friday.
NSW Health's ongoing sewage surveillance program has detected fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 in samples from Cowra in western NSW, Dareton in far western NSW, South Kempsey on the mid north coast and Ballina on the north coast.
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