Daily case numbers of COVID-19 have dropped across the Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD) since yesterday as four new infections were reported on Tuesday.
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The majority of Tuesday's cases include residents from the Wagga local government area (LGA), with three new cases recorded to 8pm Monday night.
The remaining case is a resident of the Griffith LGA.
Currently 98 per cent of MLHD residents over 16 have received their first dose of a COVID vaccine, while 94.5 per cent are fully vaccinated.
Yesterday COVID-19 case numbers jumped back up to double-digits in the MLHD, with 13 new cases reported, including two in Wagga.
The jump back up to double-digits followed a slight decrease in case numbers over the weekend, when only eight cases were reported across the MLHD on Saturday and Sunday combined.
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"NSW Health will continue to contact people diagnosed with COVID-19 and their close contacts, and people who need to follow specific health advice," an MLHD spokesperson said.
"If you receive a message from NSW Health, it is important that you follow the advice in that message."
Across the state 173 new infections were reported from more than 52,000 tests.
Two deaths were also reported in the 24 hours to 8pm Monday.
Almost 92 per cent of NSW's over 16 population is now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, while 94.4 per cent have had their first dose.
There are also 196 patients with COVID in hospital, including 34 in the ICU.
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Vaccinations can be booked at more than 100 providers across the Riverina by using healthdirect.gov.au.
Testing in Wagga is available at the MLHD's Murray Street testing clinic between 9am and 4pm daily or the drive-through site at Wagga Showground until 6pm daily, at Laverty Pathology's drive-through site in the Riverina Playhouse car park off Tarcutta and Cross streets from 8am daily, and at the GP-led respiratory clinic at Glenrock in Glenfield Park between 9am and 5pm weekdays.
"Anyone currently experiencing, or who has recently experienced, even mild cold-like symptoms is asked to come forward for testing," an MLHD spokesperson said.
"If you have any symptoms it is important that you isolate until you can be tested and until you get a negative result.
"Symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, sore throat, cough, headache, runny nose, shortness of breath, fatigue, muscle aches or pains, and a change in taste or smell."
For further testing locations across the district go to www.mlhd.health.nsw.gov.au, or for help accessing a test call the Murrumbidgee COVID-19 Hotline 1800 831 099.
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