The daily update provided by the Western NSW Local Health District (LHD) shows those people are from the Mid-Western local government area (2), Bathurst (1), Dubbo (1) and Orange (1).

The number of overall COVID-19 cases in the health district has remained relatively stable for more than two weeks with 45 people testing positive.

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There are a number of LGAs in the region that continue to have no confirmed COVID-19 cases, these include: Cowra, Forbes, Bogan and Oberon.

Meanwhile, across Australia 6647 people have caught the virus with more than 4200 now recovered.

There have been 74 deaths from the virus nationwide, this includes: 33 in NSW, 15 in Victoria, four in Queensland, seven in Western Australia, eight in Tasmania, three in the ACT, four in South Australia.

Of those deaths, 21 were passengers on the Ruby Princess cruise.

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A Western NSW LHD spokeswoman said it was critical that communities in the region continue to practice social distancing to minimise the risk of the transmission of COVID-19.

"This is important for everyone, but particularly for older people and people with health conditions that make them more vulnerable," she said.

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"It's also important that we protect our health care workers who we need to stay well to provide care to people who become sick with COVID-19."

For advice and information about COVID-19 visit NSW Health online.

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