There was one new COVID-19 case for Orange, but Bathurst, Dubbo and Wellington recorded none in the 24 hours to 8pm on Friday night.
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There were 10 new cases in the Western NSW Local Health District.
Four were in Narromine, four in Walgett, one in Orange and one in Oberon.
Of the 10 cases, only one was infectious in the community.
It brings the total number of cases in the LHD since the start of the pandemic to 1549.
There are currently four COVID cases in hospital, one of which is in the intensive care unit.
Four new cases were recorded in the Far West LHD.
They were all in Dareton and are household contacts.
The two deaths were a man in his 60s from Sydney's inner west and a woman in her 90s from south-eastern Sydney.
The man died at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He had received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The woman died at St George Hospital. She was not vaccinated.
In the Saturday health update, NSW Health said 91.7 per cent of the population aged 16 plus have had one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 78.8 per cent are fully vaccinated.
While case numbers have dropped, so have testing rates. There were 66,311 COVID tests conducted in the 24 hour reporting period.
The update comes after new rulings announced on Friday regarding regional travel from Sydney being pushed back to November 1 and hotel quarantine requirements scrapped for international travel.
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