NSW records one new COVID-19 case, no community transmission for eight days

NSW has reported one new case of coronavirus overnight after a returned overseas traveller tested positive to the virus.

The traveller returned a positive COVID-19 test in hotel quarantine.

NSW continues to keep its community transmission at bay, with the state recording eight consecutive days without a single case.

The case brings the state's confirmed numbers to 4043.

In the past 24 hours, more than 10,000 tests were conducted.

To date, more than 2.7 million tests have been carried out across the state.

Two people remain in ICU with the virus and 55 people have died.