The Illawarra has now gone three days without seeing a new COVID-19 case.
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Across the weekend, NSW recorded 449 new locally acquired COVID cases: 210 were reported on Saturday, and another 239 were reported on Sunday.
Ninety-three of the new cases were in the community for at least part of their infectious period.
As of Sunday there were 222 people with COVID-19 in hospital, one of whom was in hospital in the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District.
Fifty-four people were in intensive care and 25 of these patients required ventilation.
There have now been 3,427 locally acquired cases reported the beginning of the current outbreak in mid-June.
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller has announced that officers will crack down on the use of QR codes and face masks in and around supermarkets and large retail premises in the Greater Sydney area.
"There is no reasonable excuse that members of the wider community are not adhering to current health orders and using the QR check in and wearing face masks," Mr Fuller said in a statement.
"NSW Police Force will have a zero-tolerance approach to members of the public and businesses breaching these orders."
Businesses that do not comply with the QR code check-in system will cop fines of $5000, while people who fail to sign in will receive a $1000 penalty.
Failure to wear a mask when required attracts a $500 fine.
Anyone in NSW who has visited one of the 11 local government areas in Queensland that have entered a snap lockdown since Wednesday, July 21 must now abide by the the stay-at-home rules for 14 days from when they were last in an affected area.
The rules also apply to anyone who lives with someone who has visited these local government areas.
The affected Queensland areas are: Brisbane City, Moreton Bay Regional Council, Gold Coast, Ipswich, Lockyer Valley Regional Council, Logan City, Noosa Shire Council, Redland City, Scenic Rim Regional Council, Somerset Regional Council, and Sunshine Coast Regional Council.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has continued to ask residents to get vaccinated.
"We know that the more people who get vaccinated, the closer we [are] to living life as close to normally as we can with the Delta strain," Ms Berejiklian said.
Deputy chief health officer Dr Jeremy McAnulty urged younger people in particular to come forward for vaccination.
"We're concerned about the young people, particularly in the 18 to 39-year-old [bracket], are driving a lot of this epidemic," Dr McAnulty said.
"We're seeing cases at high rates in that age group, and this is the age group that tends to be a link between kids, younger people, and older, elderly relatives."
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