The city yesterday equalled its previous best of three days without a new case and has kept the streak going today.

Neighbouring Oberon, however, is having a drive-through COVID testing site established today after virus fragments were detected in samples taken from the Oberon sewage treatment plant on Monday, September 20.

Oberon is yet to have a COVID case and only recently came out of lockdown.

NSW Health says the drive-through testing site at Oberon will operate at 27-29 Albion Street from 11am to 4pm on Wednesday, September 22 and from 10am to 4pm on Thursday and Friday, September 23 and 24.

The Western NSW Local Health District had just nine new cases overall to 8pm on Tuesday, following seven new cases in the 24 hours previously and 10 cases in the 24-hour period before that.

The nine new cases were made up of seven cases in the Dubbo Regional Council area and two in Walgett.

Three of the Dubbo Regional Council cases are actually in Wellington, according to the Western NSW Local Health District.

YESTERDAY'S UPDATE: Three in a row for Bathurst as city records no new cases again

Member for Bathurst Paul Toole reported that Bathurst had 212 daily tests on Tuesday, which is down on testing numbers from the previous few days.

Mr Toole is now reporting Bathurst's active case total as 15, with 39 cases recovered.

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Across NSW, the state had 1035 new locally acquired COVID cases to 8pm on Tuesday and there are now 242 cases in intensive care and 122 requiring ventilators.

There were five deaths in the 24-hour reporting period: one from the Wollongong area, one from the Kiama area, two from south western Sydney and one from western Sydney.

The NSW Government says the state is now up to 54.2 per cent double doses and 83 per cent first dose.

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