Man aged in his 20s among eight NSW coronavirus deaths

There have been 587 new local cases of COVID-19 in New South Wales and eight deaths, including one person aged in their 20s in the past 24 hours.

The data was released this morning as Health Minister Brad Hazzard confirmed the daily reporting of transmissions will change.

The 587 new local cases were detected from 112,186 tests in the 24 hours up to 8pm last night. No new cases were acquired overseas.

The total number of cases in NSW since the beginning of the pandemic is 66,835.

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Man in his 20s among new deaths

The latest COVID-19 fatalities comprised five men and three women, NSW Health announced in an 11am update posted on social media today.

Two people – a man in his 20s from western Sydney and a woman in her 80s from south-eastern Sydney – died at home and tested positive to COVID-19 after their deaths.

One person in their 50s, two people in their 60s, two people in their 70s and a further person in their 80s also died.

Five people were not vaccinated, one person had received one dose, and two people with underlying health conditions had received both coronavirus shots.

New regional NSW restrictions

NSW Health also announced stay-at-home orders will be extended for some regional areas.

Due to recent transmission of COVID-19, stay-at-home orders will be extended for Oberon LGA, Snowy Monaro Regional LGA and for Menindee and Sunset Strip in the Central Darling Shire until Monday, October 11.

Everyone in these areas must stay at home unless it is for an essential reason, which includes shopping for food, medical care, getting vaccinated, compassionate needs, exercise and work or tertiary education if you can't work or study at home.

Sewage surveillance has detected fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 in sewage samples across NSW including from Lightning Ridge in western NSW, Ballina and Uralla in northern NSW, and Bodalla, Bega and Merimbula in southern NSW.

Everyone in these areas is urged to monitor for the onset of symptoms, and if they appear, to immediately be tested and isolate until a negative result is received.

Change in reporting daily virus figures

Earlier today, Mr Hazzard confirmed that from Monday, the state's daily figures will be released at 9am.

"The Premier has obviously determined that as of Monday, the arrangements will change in regard to the announcement time for the community," said Mr Hazzard.

Mr Hazzard said today's case numbers showed infections were falling but urged NSW residents to show vigilance.

"We cannot, though - we mustn't take this very granted. We really need everybody to keep going out - if you haven't been vaccinated yet, you're now in the minority but you need to go and get vaccinated because that is what you will do to keep our state safe."

Mr Hazzard also said NSW hitting 70 per cent double vaccination was important.

'We're heading in the right direction and now this 70 per cent double dose vaccination, I should say, everybody now needs to go out and take us closer to 100 per cent."