There have been 6295 COVID-19 tests undertaken in the LHD. Of those, 0.7 per cent have returned positive results, equalling 44 cases.

Ms Stanley, the manager of population health, said she hoped the number of people getting tested would increase each day. But at this point in time, Ms Stanley said testing asymptomatic people was not recommended.

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"The reason for that is we can be caught in a really tricky situation where someone presents, they don't have any symptoms, they come back with a negative result and they go about their merry way. But in actual fact, they may be unwell with COVID, they just haven't started to display any symptoms and therefore don't have any virus that has been shed," she said.

Ms Stanley said across all the data she has looked at, the number of asymptomatic people remained low.

However, she has encouraged anyone with even mild symptoms to get tested for COVID-19.

Restrictions will ease on Friday, allowing up to 10 people to gather outdoors, restricted numbers in cafes and restaurants and the use of public equipment. It's step one of three to reduce restrictions.

The population health manager said she couldn't emphasis enough how important it was for people to continue to have good hygiene and to maintain social distancing.

"I hope people use their common sense and will resume that part of their social lives with caution," Ms Stanley said.

"It's also about being mindful that if we do see another spike, and it's much greater than what we've had, there may be further restrictions that are essential to come into place. And we don't want that."

She said she was confident people would continue to implement measures to protect themselves and their families by using common sense.