That's the message Western NSW Local Health District director of Aboriginal health and wellbeing Brendon Cutmore had for the Dubbo community on Tuesday.

Support teams are in place to help Indigenous residents who contract COVID-19 within Dubbo and the region. While 13 per cent of the Dubbo population is Aboriginal, they account for 60 per cent of the city's COVID cases.

The support teams are helping with a range of services from food to medical needs and welfare checks.

"[We] have the ability to be able to reach some of those services into your home, so give us the opportunity to do that instead of you taking any unnecessary risks and travelling out out into the community and potentially spreading the virus," Mr Cutmore said.

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The Aboriginal Cultural Support Team can be contacted on 1300 066 055.

NSW recorded 1220 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 and eight deaths on Tuesday.

Of the 27 in the Western NSW Local Health District, 18 were in Dubbo, three were in Narromine, three were in Bourke, one was in Walgett, one was in Orange and one was in Brewarrina.

It brings the total number of cases in Dubbo to 636.

However, the good news is 27 people have recovered from the virus.

Despite the number of cases being fewer than previous days, Dubbo MP Dugald Saunders said they weren't considered to be dropping.

"We've been bouncing around a bit in the last few days but we had our highest number of cases only [last week]," he said.

"We're still in a rolling scenario of numbers."

WNSWLHD chief executive Scott McLachlan said there was still a high number of young people with COVID but concerningly, they had seen a growing number of people over the age of 70 contract the virus.

"We know older people do get crook faster from COVID so that's a real area of concern for us," he said.

There are currently 15 cases connected to St Mary's Villa and Holy Spirit residential aged care homes.

Mr McLachlan said the cause of the outbreak was still under investigation but it was believed to have come from someone who had undertaken work at both sites.

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