NSW Health

Active COVID-19 cases in NSW

Active cases are defined as people who have tested positive for COVID-19, are in isolation and are being clinically monitored by NSW Health. A person will no longer be an active case when they are clinically released from isolation.

COVID-19 cases reported in NSW

Cases with an unknown source mean there are some people with COVID-19 who do not know where or how they were infected. This shows there are people infected with COVID-19 in the community who have not been diagnosed and is the reason why testing is critical. Read more about testing advice and areas of increased testing.

Local COVID-19 transmission and sewage surveillance detection

COVID-19 vaccination update

*notified from 8pm 4 August 2021 to 8pm 5 August 2021 **since 22 February 2021.

NSW Health’s vaccination clinics generally operate Monday to Friday. Therefore, there may be limited vaccines administered on weekend days and public holidays due to planned closures.

For information about COVID-19 vaccine rollout data across Australia visit Department of Health - Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

More information

• COVID-19 case locations and alerts
• COVID-19 Sewage Surveillance Program
• Enhanced surveillance plan for COVID-19 in NSW

Notes

Last 24 hours refers to new cases and tests in the 24 hours from 8pm 04 August to 8pm 05 August, 2021. This week includes data for the 7 days ending 8pm 05 August 2021, last week includes data to the week ending 8pm 29 July 2021. Numbers of cases are based on date of notification to NSW Health.

The map shows the location of residence by Local Government Area (LGA) or local health district (LHD) of locally acquired COVID-19 cases in the last four weeks up to 8pm 05 August 2021. It is based on the date the person first developed symptoms. When no date of symptom onset is available (it is either under investigation by public health staff or the person tested positive without showing symptoms), the date of the positive test is used. Infections are not always acquired in the place of residence as people often travel outside their area for many reasons (e.g. work, school and shopping). Cases without a NSW residential address and people who were exposed interstate or overseas are not shown. Case counts may vary over time due to ongoing investigations and case review.

The NSW Sewage Surveillance Program tests untreated sewage for fragments of the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) virus at sewage treatment plant locations across NSW. The map also shows detections for the latest sample collected. It has been produced with assistance from utilities including Sydney Water and is an approximation of the catchment areas for the sewage treatment plants. It is provided for general information and public health advice. A single treatment plant may receive sewage from a number of sewage networks, and individual sewage networks may also be sampled. In Sydney, testing is undertaken from both the sewage treatment plant (inlet sites) and sites within the network (network sites). Differences in the timing of sample collection and dilution can lead to a network site being positive when the inlet it is part of is negative. If increased community testing is requested in response to sewage testing results details are listed at Locations where COVID-19 virus fragments have been detected in sewage.

The total NSW case count excludes 189 crew members who tested positive while on board a ship docked in NSW at the time of diagnosis. NSW Health reports on the number of tests notified instead of the number of people tested. In total, 4,648,806 people have been tested in NSW. Find out more about how NSW counts tests.