The Illawarra recorded 535 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, and 29 people are in the region's hospitals as a result of COVID-19, the highest number since the Omicron outbreak began.
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The Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District said 304 of those cases were from the Wollongong Local Government Area; 103 cases were from Shellharbour LGA; 94 cases from Shoalhaven LGA and 34 cases from Kiama LGA.
There have been 7,021 cases reported in the region since June 16.
Of the Wollongong LGA cases, 58 were from the 2500 postcode; 22 from 2502 postcode; eight from 2505 postcode; 12 from 2506; five from 2508; 19 from 2515; two from 2516; 16 from 2517; 18 from 2518; 27 from 2519; 23 from 2525; 31 from 2526 and 63 from 2530.
In the Shellharbour LGA 30 cases were in postcode 2527; 28 in postcode 2528 and 45 in postcode 2529.
In the Shoalhaven LGA nine cases were in the 2535 postcode; two cases were in the 2538 postcode; 32 were in the 2539 postcode; 30 in the 2540 postcode and 21 in the 2541 postcode.
In Kiama LGA 15 cases were from 2533; 19 were from 2534.
NSW has recorded 20,794 new COVID-19 cases and four more deaths from the virus.
The cases were diagnosed from 96,765 tests processed in the 24 hours to 8pm on Sunday.
It's a rise of 2516 from the previous day's tally, but still short of the peak of 22,577 on New Year's Day.
There are currently 1204 people in NSW hospitals with the virus, up from 1066 the day before.
Intensive care numbers have jumped by 12 to 95 overnight.
Testing capacity in NSW is currently under enormous pressure and the only people getting a PCR (nose and throat swab) should be those who have COVID-19 symptoms; live in a household with a confirmed COVID-19-positive case; or have otherwise been advised by NSW Health to get tested.
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