NSW's stay-at-home restrictions are expected to be lifted on October 11, when projections say that 70 per cent of the population will be double-vaccinated.

But chief executive of Western NSW Local Health District, Scott McLachlan, confirmed there would be a period where people would still be required to isolate.

"We will still be maintaining all the things that have been absolutely crucial for us over the last six, 12 or 18 months," he said.

"So the contact tracing, asking people to isolate to minimise the spread of COVID in coming weeks and months.

"We know this will change as we hit the first of December and future months if there is broader spread across communities, but absolutely for the meantime we will maintain the current approach."

The message came on the same day that the Western health boss also revealed that future lockdowns could look at individual towns and cities, rather than the broad LGA. An example of this could be Molong - which is in the Cabonne LGA - going into lockdown if necessary, but a town like Cudal, which is also in Cabonne, not having to.

"I think it definitely needs to be considered," Mr McLachlan said.

"We know with a big region like ours and multiple communities in local government areas that there does need to be some consideration in future weeks and months of how we're going to respond when we do see outbreaks in communities that we need to contain and slow the spread.

"Those considerations I know are underway, as are a lot of the other things that will help us gauge the risk of broader spread in communities."

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