Your simple guide to the COVID-19 restrictions being eased in NSW

From 6pm today household contacts of a COVID-19 case will not longer be required to isolate in New South Wales.

Premier Dominic Perrottet also announced a raft of other changes relating to vaccine mandates and hotel quarantine for unvaccinated travellers.

However, he has stressed this does not mean the pandemic is over.

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Here's what has changed:

• From 6pm Friday close or household contacts no longer need to isolate.
• But - you need to adhere to restrictions for a week from the positive result.
• You can't visit high risk health settings like hospitals and aged care centres.
• You must wear masks indoors when outside the home.
• You need to do daily rapid tests if coming into close contacts with others.
• Household and close contacts must work from home where they can.
• If you test positive to COVID-19 you still need to isolate for seven days.
• Vaccine mandates for some key workforces will be lifted.
• These mandates remain in place for aged care and disability workers.
• From April 30 unvaccinated travellers don't need to do hotel quarantine.

There were 15,414 cases reported in NSW in the past 24 hours, with 1639 people in hospital and 72 in ICU. Fifteen people died with the virus.

"This is not the end of the pandemic, we will always tailor our restrictions as we have said from the outset over the last two years, from the circumstances that we find ourselves in," Mr Perrottet said on Wednesday.

"We have put downward pressure on our health system and that is because of the efforts and sacrifice people have made," he added.