Run of no new cases ends for Bathurst with a fresh infection

It continues a recent pattern for the city of stretches of no new infections broken by a single case.

Oberon's clean record of no COVID cases at all has also come to an end.

The town had one new case in the latest 24-hour period, which followed a recent detection of COVID fragments in Oberon's sewage.

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Member for Bathurst Paul Toole reported Bathurst's one new case takes the city to 14 active cases and 42 recovered.

He said there were 339 daily tests in Bathurst on Monday.

The Western NSW Local Health District had 21 new cases in the 24 hours to 8pm on Monday, just down on the previous 24-hour period.

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The 21 new cases were made up of 12 in the Dubbo council area (11 of them in Wellington), one in Bathurst, one in Bourke, four in Narromine, one in Orange, one in Cowra and one in Oberon.

Across NSW, the state had 863 new locally acquired COVID cases to 8pm on Monday, almost 100 more than the previous 24 hours but still well down on the 1000-plus numbers being seen relatively recently.

There are now 213 cases in intensive care and 113 requiring ventilators, which is down on the 24 hours before.

There were seven deaths in the 24-hour reporting period, one of whom was a man in his 40s who died at Dubbo Base Hospital.

The NSW Government says the state is now up to 60.4 per cent double doses and 85.7 per cent first dose.

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