BATHURST'S new COVID case announced on Thursday morning had become a Dubbo case by Thursday afternoon after a clarification by Western NSW Local Health District.
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A new case for Bathurst was named by Deputy Premier John Barilaro at the NSW Government's daily briefing on Thursday morning.
The health district, however, later clarified that the positive case was in Dubbo after travelling from Bathurst.
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It had been reported that the positive COVID case had been in Bathurst Correctional Centre, but Corrective Services said later that was not the case.
Nonetheless, health district chief executive officer Scott McLachlan said the man had been transported directly from Bathurst to "our accommodation" in Dubbo.
"There is no risk that they've been exposed in the community," he said. "There wasn't any opportunity to infect anyone else."
There have previously been two confirmed cases of COVID-19 in inmates linked to Bathurst Correctional Centre and the possibility of a third was a topic of conversation in Mr Barilaro's daily briefing.
"We're talking with Corrections to see what else we need to do with not only protecting staff, but to see that we don't get this continued exposure in the public domain," he said.
"We're working through all of that. We're not concerned at this very moment that there's more in Bathurst, but as we said earlier, the sewage surveillance showed there was a case."
There was also a change made on Thursday to one of Bathurst's two venues of concern. Petrie's Mitre 10 had previously been a venue of concern for 12.35pm on Saturday, August 7, but NSW Health now has it as a venue of concern for 12.15pm to 12.35pm on Saturday, August 7.
The Western NSW Local Health District had 25 new COVID cases to 8pm on Wednesday, bringing the total to 167 cases: 21 in Dubbo and four in Mudgee.
Mr McLachlan said four patients were in hospital and one in intensive care.
"We've also got four children that are being accommodated in the hospital but not requiring acute hospital care," he said.
He said there had been around 470 COVID tests conducted in Bathurst in the previous 24 hours.
He said he would like to see numbers rise in places that have active cases or where COVID fragments had been found in sewage samples recently, which includes Bathurst.
The Mount Panorama drive-through testing clinic remains open 8am to 4pm seven days a week.
