A nurse at a GP surgery in the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District has been diagnosed with COVID-19, however she did not work during her infectious period according to NSW Health.
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A NSW Health spokesperson said investigations were now underway into how the 52-year-old woman contracted the virus.
She was one of nine new cases confirmed across the state as of 8pm Tuesday - bringing the total number of cases in NSW to 3042.
NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said there had been one death over the reporting period, of a 88-year-old female resident of Newmarch House.
There have now been 16 deaths linked to that Sydney aged care facility and 46 deaths overall in NSW.
"In terms of the nine new cases, one is (a) worker related to Newmarch House," Dr Chant said.
"There were two overseas travellers that were quarantined in hotels, and one who was a known contact of a confirmed case.
"And there's five currently under investigation as to the source of infection."
Dr Chant said one of the new cases did attend a healthcare facility.
"As a precaution the clinicians involved in the care were swabbed and tested and those seven staff have all returned a negative swab," she said.
"Contacts of the case in that health facility have been isolated, asked to quarantine themselves for 14 days.
"Also there have been small number of patients in contact and they have been contacted and advised of the necessary steps they need to take."
The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the ISLHD remained stable, at 115, as of Tuesday morning.
Of these 106 have recovered and two are being cared for in Wollongong Hospital.
Statewide, there are 129 COVID-19 cases being treated by NSW Health - including 13 people being treated in intensive care units, with nine of those requiring ventilators.
Eighty-one per cent of cases are in non-acute, out-of-hospital care.
Meantime there have now been 2418 people who have recovered from COVID-19 in NSW.
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