The rolling four-week total for the Wagga Local Government Area showed 99 positive results for COVID-19 from 11,495 tests carried out to 8pm on December 24.

The latest COVID-19 figures released on Christmas Day show that the rate of new infections has continued to increase in the Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MHLD) amid the spread of the Omicron variant.

In the 24 hours to 8pm on December 24, MLHD recorded 48 new cases compared to 45 in the previous 24 hour period.

NSW recorded 6288 new cases In the 24 hours to 8pm on December 24, up from 5612 new cases in the past 24 hours.

The MLHD had the third lowest number of new cases out of all NSW local health districts, above Southern NSW with 16 new cases and Far West with two cases and below Western NSW with 119 new cases.

The four-week total for the MLHD, which included figures from Wagga, showed 267 cases detected from 35,935 tests.

That figure would likely include some of the 14 new cases diagnosed after an infected person attended the William Farrer Hotel in Wagga earlier this month.

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