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More than six million vaccinations have been delivered as NSW continues to battle against the Delta strain's hold over the state.
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More than 750 new cases of COVID-19 were detected in NSW to 8pm on Monday, premier Gladys Berejiklian said in delivering a state-wide update on Tuesday.
More than 138,000 tests were conducted in NSW, and 753 confirmed cases emerged.
Ms Berejiklian said she was "so pleased and grateful" the state had hit 6 million jabs, her goal for August, already.
The deputy premier, John Barilaro, also called out two Riverina local government areas for their huge uptake of the vaccine, with almost half the population of two communities now fully-vaccinated.
"I want to call out areas like Walcha, which has now a 49.2 per cent double-dose rate, 75 per cent single-dose rate," he said.
"Edward River [has] 41 per cent of a double dose rate.
"In Hay, 40 per cent of that population has double doses, and the biggest mover for the week was Gilgandra, that went from 22.5 per cent of first dose to 51 per cent in under a week.
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Ms Berejiklian said she expected to make an announcement of what those who are fully vaccinated will be able to do from next month, as well as outlining what school will look like in the future.
"That equates to about 60 per cent of our population across the state having one dose," she said.
"In terms of the regions, many areas are settling down and stabilising, but western NSW of course remains our concern."
No deaths were recorded in NSW to 8pm Monday, the premier said.
NSW's chief health officer Kerry Chant congratulated the community on the vaccination rates and implored those who are yet to get the jab to come forward.
"My key message is we need to hold the course," Dr Chant said.
"It is incredibly important that as we increase vaccine coverage we do all we can to prevent further transmission and that we see those case numbers decline.
"That is our challenge, and can I thank the community, it is so pleasing every day to see those vaccine numbers go up, and what is more pleasing is to see those second doses rate start to go up as well."
The majority of new COVID-19 patients are in the Western Sydney and South Western Sydney local health districts (LHD), where 283 and 233 cases respectively were diagnosed.
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The Western LHD recorded another 36 and the Far West another 14 cases. The 14 cases in the Far West LHD were all detected in Wilcannia, Mr Barilaro confirmed.
"[There were] 23 cases in Dubbo, five in Parkes, two in Bourke, in the Wellington Local Government area were two cases, Coonamble one and Gilgandra two cases, and one in Narromine," he said of the Western figures.
"As of 8pm [Monday there were] 14 cases in Wilcannia, and again our message to anyone who has visited Wilcannia or is in Wilcannia is to get tested regardless of symptoms or not, we need to get on top of it."
Ongoing sewage surveillance has the regional town of Cobar on alert after fragments of the virus were detected at the treatment plant, which services 4000 people.
"Everyone in this area is urged to monitor for the onset of symptoms, and if they appear, to immediately be tested and isolate until a negative result is received," NSW Health said.
Mr Barilaro said on Monday he is preparing to fight for certain council areas in regional and rural NSW to leave lockdown after this weekend.
Mr Barilaro has requested a map be made of regional council's according to three criteria: whether there are any active cases of COVID-19, whether there is detections of the virus in sewage, and if there are neighbouring LGAs of concern.
If a council area doesn't meet this, he believes they have a chance of coming out of lockdown earlier than other regions on an LGA-by-LGA approach.
"If it only leaves a handful of communities open and the rest closed then the easiest thing is to just keep everyone closed and that could be a final decision, but we're not there yet," he added.
The Murrumbidgee Local Health District has confirmed the COVID-19 case that led to potential exposure sites being identified in the northern Riverina falls under a neighbouring jurisdiction and is not an MLHD case.
The revelation means there are currently no active cases in the MLHD and the health district remains one of only two across the state that have not recorded a COVID-19 case in the four weeks to 8pm on Sunday, according to the latest NSW Health data.
Hundreds of people have turned out for testing in Lake Cargelligo and Hillston after four exposure sites emerged late last week.
The state's west is unlikely to come out of lockdown this week, Mr Barilaro said, as cases continue to be detected in the western and far west local health districts.
The region was due to come out of lockdown on Saturday, however cases in the western area continue to rise.
Of the 283 cases in Western NSW, 234 are in Dubbo.
There were also seven new cases announced in Orange in recent days while cases have popped up at Parkes. Those cases were discovered following COVID detection in sewage surveillance.
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The Hunter is also "unlikely" to escape from lockdown this weekend even if new daily coronavirus case numbers fall to zero.
Mr Barilaro said on Monday that the state's health advisers would recommend waiting out a 14-day incubation period from the date of the last positive case before the region emerged from stay-at-home orders.
The Hunter recorded two new cases in the 24 hours to 8pm Sunday, one in Toronto and another in East Branxton.
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