The Murrumbidgee Local Health District has not recorded any new cases of coronavirus but the state's chief health officer has expressed concern about seeding in a Riverina town.
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The state recorded 667 locally acquired cases to 8pm on Saturday and the deaths of 10 people with COVID-19, including six women and four men.
Two people were in their 50s, four in their 60s, two in their 70s and two in their 80s.
The total number of vaccines administered in NSW is now more than 10 million with 3,616,479 doses administered by NSW Health to 8pm last night.
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On Sunday morning, a MLHD spokesperson said contact tracing of recently identified cases continues and a list of new exposure sites will be provided as soon as they are available.
During the 11am update on Sunday, NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said they are concerned about Deniliquin due to seeding after the Murrumbidgee Local Health District revealed another six venues of concern in the town yesterday.
"We are seeing a decline in case numbers in a number of areas in metropolitan Sydney and that's pleasing but we are seeing increasing trends in the regions," Dr Chant said.
"We are also concerned about Wollongong, Maitland, Wellington, Oberon, Queanbeyan and Deniliquin and a number of other rural and regional areas where we are seeing seeding and an increase in cases."
This morning it was announced that Victoria has recorded 1220 new cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to midnight, a decrease on the all-time high of 1488 the day before.
They have also marked the deaths of three people.
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