Lockdown ends as planned in NSW Central West region

A lockdown sparked by a coronavirus-infected delivery driver in the New South Wales Central West has ended as planned.

Orange, Blayney and Cabonne were released from a snap lockdown at midnight tonight.

NSW Health on Tuesday confirmed the end of the health order, which affected more than 40,000 people.

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"There has been no further transmission detected in the region since the case notified on July 20," a statement said.

A pet food delivery driver from south-west Sydney tested positive after delivering pet food to the Nestle Purina factory at Blayney.

The lockdown began last Wednesday and also applied to anybody who had been in those areas since Saturday, July 17.

Extra virus testing sites were set up in the areas after the man visited, but there were no more positive cases.

Mayor of Orange, Reg Kidd, said the decision to implement a lockdown was "not an easy one".

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NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro said the lockdown was a "reminder to everybody that we in regional and rural NSW aren't somehow not going to be impacted by the current Delta strain".