Member for Keira Ryan Park, Wollongong MP Paul Scully and Shellharbour MP Anna Watson have written to Health Minister Brad Hazzard, asking that Dr Kerry Chant and the public health team formally review the situation in the Illawarra and provide updated advice around restrictions that would reflect local conditions.

"We understand that the Illawarra needs to continue to do its part to stop the spread but feel that conditions in the Illawarra more closely reflect those of regional NSW than those of Greater Sydney, particularly given there has been no community transmission in the region during the current lockdown," Ms Watson, Mr Scully and Mr Park said in their letter.

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Shellharbour has seen no cases this lockdown, while 21 Wollongong residents have tested positive for COVID-19 to 8pm Tuesday.

These have all been linked to Sydney cases or close contacts of another case, with the exception of one case reported on Wednesday - however, it is believed that too is connected to employment in Sydney.

Wollongong enjoyed a five-day streak without new cases, but that was broken on Wednesday with the reports of two new cases in the 24 hours to 8pm Tuesday.

The MPs have also asked that the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District provide daily updates of how many residents of the region have received their first and second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Mr Hazzard has not responded.

Earlier this week, Dr Chant said Wollongong and Shellharbour remained under the stay-at-home order because of the connectivity between the cities, and metropolitan Sydney.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said that if health experts found Wollongong, Shellharbour and the Central Coast could be treated like the rest of regional NSW, the government would take that advice.

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