COVID-19 cases have fallen across NSW, Victoria and the Illawarra Shoalhaven, but 11 people have died.
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In NSW, the state recorded 332 new cases and two people died. There are 469 people in hospital, with 123 in intensive care.
There were six new cases in the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District.
Of the six new cases three were in the Wollongong Local Government Area with two of those linked to known cases. Two of the cases were in the 2502 postcode area and one was in the 2518 postcode.
There were two new cases in the Shellharbour LGA's 2527 postcode area, with investigations are ongoing.
And there was one new case in Shoalhaven's 2541 Nowra postcode, with investigations continuing into that one.
There were no new cases in Kiama.
There have now been 2,344 local cases of COVID-19 in the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District since the start of the current outbreak in June.
And at 8pm Friday 22 October, there were 21 COVID-19 patients being treated in hospital.
NSW Health's ongoing sewage surveillance program has detected fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 in sewage samples in Bega, Moruya and Narooma that are not known recent cases.
People in those South Coast communities are urged to monitor for the onset of symptoms, and if they appear, to immediately be tested and isolate until a negative result is received.
Venues are posted daily on the health district's Facebook page and a full list of all exposure sites in NSW is available on the NSW Health case locations web page.
There are a number of COVID-19 testing clinics across the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District and a full list and updated opening hours and times on the health district's website.
Meanwhile IRT Tarrawanna Aged Care Centre reported on Saturday morning that for the second day in a row all results from Friday's COVID-19 tests of residents and staff were negative.
A spokesperson said the two residents who had been diagnosed with COVID-19 had now recovered, having reached 14 days since returning a positive swab and at least three days without symptoms.
IRT Tarrawanna Aged Care Centre is presently caring for 21 residents who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 at the care centre and there are now no COVID positive residents being cared for at Wollongong Hospital.
And the resident who transferred from Wollongong Hospital to Bulli Hospital has now recovered from COVID-19.
The spokesperson said IRT Tarrawanna Aged Care Centre continues to be managed in accordance with strict infection control protocols and in consultation with local, state and federal health authorities.
"Testing will continue until we are confident the outbreak is over," the spokesperson said.
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