In the 24 hours to 8pm on Saturday night there were 153 new cases in the Western NSW Local Health District.

The majority were in Dubbo - including one with a Wellington address - followed by Orange with 35 new cases. There were also nine cases in Bathurst.

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Here's where the cases were spread across the local health district:

Across the LHD there are four people in hospital with COVID-19, and one who is in intensive care.

There were 18,278 new COVID-19 cases detected in NSW in the 24 hours.

There were also two deaths.

The latest victims of the virus are two men. A man in his 80s from South Western Sydney died at Concord Hospital, and a man from his western Sydney in his 90s also died. Both had received two doses of the vaccine.

There were 90,019 tests conducted in the Saturday reporting period.

COVID-19 testing is available at the Dubbo Showground between 8am and 4pm.

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