One new case of COVID-19 has been recorded in Orange, bringing the city's case numbers to 12 since NSW came out of lockdown on Monday, October 11.
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The new case is one of five in the Western Local Area Health District as of 8pm Saturday.
The other cases included three in Walgett and one in Mudgee.
A new venue of concern has also been listed in Orange after a COVID positive person visited Eureka Street Furniture Orange at the Orange Homemaker Centre between 5.05pm to 5.10pm on Wednesday, October 13.
Across NSW there were 301 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm on Saturday.
Sadly, NSW Health is reporting the deaths of 10 people with COVID-19 - five women and five men.
Two people were in their 50s, two people were in their 60s, two people were in their 70s, three people were in their 80s and one person was in their 90s.
Three people were from south western Sydney, two people were from southern Sydney, two people were from south eastern Sydney, one person was from the Central Coast, one person was from the Newcastle area, and one person was from the Cessnock area.
It comes after the state reached an 80 per cent double vaccination rate on Saturday.
Of the health district's latest COVID-19 cases, one one case has been identified as being in the community while infectious, one was not in the community while infectious, three cases remain under investigation.
Additionally, four cases are known to be linked to previously confirmed cases.
In total, there has been 1554 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in WNSWLHD.
There there have been a total of 13 deaths linked to COVID-19 in the WNSWLHD , but no new deaths in the 24 hours to 8pm Saturday.
In that period there were four patients admitted to hospital across WNSWLHD; one is in ICU.
There were 21 patients discharged from the COVID Care in the Community (CCiC) program.
As of October 13, there were two people in Orange receiving care and one person had been discharged in the week between October 6 and 13.
There were no virus fragments detected in sewage samples taken from areas without known or recent cases of COVID-19, or recent sewage detections:
On Monday 11 October, stay-at-home orders were lifted across the state in line with the NSW Government's Roadmap to Recovery. In the last 24 hours, no changes have been made to COVID-19 restrictions.
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Tanya Marschke
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
