NSW COVID cases continue to fall but deaths back in double figures

Hospitalisation numbers now sit at 1130 - a full 158 down from Monday. There are 59 people being treated in intensive care, 15 fewer than the state started the week.

Of the new cases, 4396 came from positive rapid antigen tests while 2621 came from PCR testing.

The state's population aged 16 years and over is 94.3 per cent double vaccinated, while 95.8 per cent have had their first COVID-19 vaccine shot.

53.5 per cent have had their third dose of vaccine.

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Those aged between 12 and 15 years are 79 per cent double vaccinated, while 83.6 per cent have had their first dose.

Of those aged 5 to 11 years old, 47.2 per cent have had their first vaccine dose.

NSW Health will release further details of today's cases at 11am.

More non-urgent elective surgery patients will be able to access services requiring an overnight stay in private hospitals from Monday.

NSW Health is lifting the cap to 85 per cent of pre-pandemic capacity in private hospitals before completely removing it on Monday, March 7.

Public hospitals are on track to perform up to 75 per cent of pre-pandemic elective surgeries or higher over the coming weeks, health authorities said.

"[The staged approach] ensures people have access to clinically recommended surgery while we continue to balance the COVID-19 emergency response," NSW Health acting deputy secretary Wayne Jones said.

Saturday's hospitalisation figures are less than half of the admissions around the same time last month when the omicron wave saw a peak of 2943 people in hospital with the virus.