Stay-at-home orders will be extended until Monday, October 11, for a number of local government areas in regional NSW due to the ongoing COVID-19 public health risk, NSW Health advised this morning.
The affected LGAs include Bathurst Regional, Bourke, City of Broken Hill, Central Coast, City of Cessnock, Dubbo Regional, Eurobodalla, Goulburn Mulwaree, Kiama, City of Lake Macquarie, City of Lithgow, City of Maitland, City of Newcastle, Port Stephens, Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional, City of Shellharbour, City of Shoalhaven, and Wingecarribee.
Due to recent transmission of COVID-19, stay-at-home orders will be introduced for the Snowy Monaro LGA from 3pm today for seven days. These stay-at-home orders also apply to anyone who has the Snowy Monaro LGA since Wednesday, September 22.
Stay-at-home orders will be lifted from tomorrow, Friday, October 1, for the Mid-Western Regional, Hilltops and Walgett LGAs.
For the Central Darling Shire Council, stay-at-home orders will be lifted from tomorrow, with the exceptions of Wilcannia and Menindee. Stay-at-home orders have been extended in Menindee for a further seven days and in Wilcannia until October 11.
NSW Health advised that it would continue to closely monitor the evolving situation with COVID-19 and would not hesitate to update its advice to protect the health and wellbeing of the people of NSW.
Across the state during the 24 hours until 8pm last night, 941 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were recorded which took the total number of cases in NSW since the beginning of the pandemic to 62,164.
The deaths of six people with COVID-19 – four men and two women – were also reported. Three people were in their 70s, two people were in their 80s, and one person was in their 90s.
There have now been 337 COVID-19 related deaths in NSW since June 16 and 393 in total since the start of the pandemic.
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