NSW deputy premier John Barilaro has again met with regional media to talk about the growing COVID-19 outbreak in regional NSW.
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The afternoon digital press conference was born out of the need for regional media, who can't attend Premier Gladys Berejiklian's 11am city conference, to have a space to ask questions on behalf of their community.
Of today's 644 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases the majority are from local health districts in the greater Sydney area.
The breakdown is headed by 256 from Western Sydney Local Health District (LHD), 222 are from South Western Sydney LHD, 47 are from Sydney LHD, 35 are from Nepean Blue Mountains LHD, 27 are from Western NSW LHD, 25 are from South Eastern Sydney LHD and eight are from Northern Sydney LHD.
There are three are from Hunter New England LHD, three are from Far West LHD, three are from Central Coast LHD, two are from Southern NSW LHD, one is from Mid North Coast LHD and there are 12 cases are yet to be assigned.
NSW Health's ongoing sewage surveillance program also detected fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 at the Cobar, Port Macquarie, Parkes, Coonamble and Bellambi sewage treatment plants in recent days.
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