New Cowra case wasn't infectious in the community

The person, Western NSW Local Health District said, was not infectious in the community.

The Cowra case, which takes the town's total cases to 45, was among 19 new cases identified in the Western NSW Local Health District.

Eight of the cases were reported in Bourke, three in Oberon, three in Dubbo, two in Wellington and one each in Gulgong and Narromine.

WNSWLHD urges local residents to be vigilant for the onset of symptoms that could signal COVID-19 and, if they appear, to immediately get tested and isolate until a negative result is received.

Testing continues to be available at the Cowra Showground today.

There have been three new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Murrumbidgee Local Health District reported in NSW Health's numbers today, none of which live in the Hilltops Local Government area..Two cases are residents of the Edward River Local Government Area. They are both close contacts of a previously reported case and are in isolation.

One case is a resident of the Albury LGA and acquired the infection outside of the District, and is currently isolating outside the District

A case reported yesterday that was yet to be assigned to an LGA has now been assigned to Edward River LGA. This person is currently in a Melbourne hospital.

This brings the total number of cases in Edward River LGA to three, Griffith LGA to one, Hilltops LGA to 24 and Albury LGA to 8, with a total of 36 cases in the MLHD since the start of the current outbreak.

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