Five new cases for Bathurst were included in Sunday's figures, bringing the total known active COVID-19 cases in the region to 21.

Those five cases were among 10 new infections across the Western NSW Local Health District, including three in Walgett and one each in Dubbo and Wagga.

New reporting protocols as a result of easing COVID restrictions across the state and high vaccination rates mean health authorities will no longer reveal how many of the new daily cases were known to be active in the community while infectious with residents instead advised to "continue to act as if active COVID-19 cases may be present in your community by following safety measures and responding to alerts".

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Across NSW there were 296 new infections in the 24 hours to 8pm on Saturday and four deaths.

NSW Health has added the St George Bank branch on Howick Street to its venues of concerns and ask that anyone who visited the branch between 9.40am and 9.50am on Wednesday, October 20 immediately gets tested for COVID-19 and self-isolates until they receive a negative result.

In addition, Western NSW LHD advised late on Friday that Bent Threads on William Street and Steve's Quality Meats in the Westpoint Shopping Centre at Windradyne had also been visited by active COVID cases.

Anyone who visited Bent Threads Menswear between 4.18pm and 4.25pm on Tuesday, October 19 or 4.30pm and 5.30pm on Thursday, October 21; or Steve's Quality Meats between 3.45pm and 3.50pm on Wednesday, October 20 or 3.45pm and 3.50pm on Thursday, October 21 should get also tested immediately and self-isolate until they get a negative result.

Drive-through COVID testing is available from 8am-4pm each day at the former Clancy Motors site at 252 Howick Street.

Meanwhile, unvaccinated Bathurst residents have been urged to come forward for their jabs after new data showed the region's immunisation rate is ranked among the worst of 22 local government areas across the state's west.

Western NSW LHD chief executive Scott McLachlan said the latest figures from the Australian Immunisation Register, updated to October 17, showed Bathurst's vaccination rate ranked it 18^th out of the 22 LGAs under his watch,

"For people aged 16 and over the Bathurst Regional LGA's first-dose vaccination rate is 91.8 per cent, which ranks 18th out of the 22 LGAs in WNSWLHD. The second-dose rate of 82.5 per cent ranks 15th of 22," he said.

"For people aged 12 to 15, the first-dose vaccination rate is 81.6 per cent which ranks 14th out of 22 and the second-dose rate is 62.9 per cent, which ranks 15th out of 22."

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