Up to 4pm on Sunday there were 14 people in hospital with COVID-19 across the Western NSW Local Health District.
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Of those, one is in ICU.
A man in his 60s from the state's Central West was the one recorded death in NSW up to 4pm on Sunday.
He had received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and had significant underlying health conditions.
There were 99 positive PCR test results and 155 positive Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) results identified in WNSWLHD. However, there may be some cases where people have reported multiple positive RAT results and/or also had a positive PCR test during the same reporting period, resulting in duplicates.
The Dubbo local government area currently has 663 active cases while there is 1264 in the Bathurst LGA and 848 in the Orange LGA.
The Narromine LGA has 64 active cases, there's 29 in the Gilgandra LGA, 202 in Cabonne, 251 in Mid-Western, and 538 in the Parkes LGA.
Active cases are those which have been identified in the past two weeks.
NSW has recorded 8911 new COVID-19 cases and one death in the 24 hours to 4pm.
There are 1005 COVID-19 patients in hospital, with 47 in ICU.
Hospitalisation numbers are up on yesterday, when 965 patients were being cared for with 44 in ICU.
Of the new cases, 4788 came from positive rapid antigen tests while 4123 came from PCR testing.
The state's population aged 16 years and over is 94.4 per cent double vaccinated, while 95.9 per cent have had their first COVID-19 vaccine shot.
There are now 57.1 per cent of people who have had their third dose of vaccine.
Those aged between 12 and 15 years are 79.1 per cent double vaccinated, while 83.6 per cent have had their first dose.
Of those aged 5 to 11 years old, 48.4 per cent have had their first vaccine dose.
Nationally, 30,000 Australians a day continue to contract COVID-19, while virus-related deaths are already more than 420 for March.
However the nation's governments are set on winding back isolation requirements and reducing reliance on laboratory testing.
Following last Friday's meeting of national cabinet, the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee has been tasked with an urgent review of both changes.
While low by world standards, Australia's death toll stands at 5587 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says quarantine requirements are starving businesses of staff and that scrapping the need to isolate for extended periods will help the Australian economy get back on track.
The proposed alternative is for otherwise healthy people with mild respiratory symptoms to instead undertake voluntary self-isolation.
Mr Morrison says he's concerned by the impact winter will have on COVID-19 cases, and the likely effect of influenza.
Some $2.1 billion has been set aside to meet the challenges.
Of this, $1.2 billion will help protect residential aged care and disability care sectors, $356 million will go to vulnerable population groups and $571 million towards vaccines.
- with Australian Associated Press
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