Five additional Illawarra Shoalhaven residents have been diagnosed with COVID-19 over the weekend.
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All those who have been newly diagnosed are returned travellers, and they remain in hotel quarantine in Sydney.
It takes the total number of cases within the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District to 122, as at 8am on Monday morning.
Of those, 114 have since recovered from the virus; while sadly two residents with confirmed cases have died from COVID complications - a 75-year-old man who died in Wollongong Hospital's intensive care unit on April 3 and a woman who died in a Sydney hospital in March.
Meantime the most recent case of community transmission - a man in his early twenties who was diagnosed early last week - has been discharged from Wollongong Hospital and is now recovering at home in isolation.
The source of the man's infection remains under investigation, though his close contacts have been contacted by the district's health unit and have been requested to self-isolate for 14 days. Any contact who develops COVID-19 symptoms will be tested for the infection.
"We have been able to identify all close contacts of the case, and their movements, and we are now awaiting a few more results," ISLHD public health unit director Curtis Gregory said.
"At this stage there's still no indication where he may have been infected.
"The priority for the public health unit is to co-ordinate a quick response, so the person who is sick with COVID-19 or those contacts who are potentially sick are no longer circulating in the community and not providing points of exposure to anyone else."
A NSW Health spokesperson last week confirmed that the young man had not attended any mass gatherings prior to his diagnosis.
Across the state, two new cases were confirmed in the 24 hours to 8pm on Sunday - one a returned traveller and the other a man in his 30s from South Western Sydney. That brings the total number of cases in NSW to 3151.
There are currently 46 COVID-19 cases being treated by NSW Health, none in intensive care. In NSW, 2771 people are known to have recovered from COVID-19.
Almost 735,000 COVID-19 tests have now been carried out in NSW - and almost 35,000 within the ISLHD.
Since March 29, more than 3000 asymptomatic returned travellers have been tested in hotels, with 104 of those (three per cent) found positive.
Travellers are also screened on day 10 of quarantine. Since this screening began on May 15 more than 9600 returned travellers have been screened on day 10, with 41 found positive.
Meantime NSW Health strongly discourages travel to and from areas of Victoria with COVID-19 outbreaks until control of community transmission has been confirmed.
The Victorian Government has identified the local government areas of Hume, Casey and Brimbank, Moreland, Cardinia and Darebin as the focus of current outbreaks of concern.
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