The Illawarra Shoalhaven saw a slight drop in COVID-19 cases overnight to Wednesday at 8pm with 247 cases recorded for the health district compared to 255 on Tuesday.
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The number of people in hospital was also down from 15 to 13 patients.
Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District recorded 172 cases in the Wollongong area, 32 in Shellharbour, 22 in Shoalhaven and 21 in Kiama.
The slight drop in cases bucks the NSW state trend where 12,226 new cases were recorded overnight with 745 people in hospital, 63 of them in intensive care and one death.
The following Illawarra Shoalhaven postcodes have recorded cases:
Wollongong LGA - 172 cases
- 2500 - 44
- 2505 - 8
- 2506 - 6
- 2508 - 5
- 2515 - 7
- 2516 - 10
- 2517 - 16
- 2518 - 10
- 2519 - 11
- 2525 - 14
- 2526 - 17
- 2530 - 24
Shellharbour LGA - 32 cases
- 2527 - 9
- 2528 - 11
- 2529 - 12
Shoalhaven LGA - 22 cases
- 2535 - 6
- 2538 - 1
- 2539 - 5
- 2540 - 4
- 2541 - 6
Kiama LGA - 21 cases
- 2533 - 9
- 2534 - 12
On Wednesday, NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant warned "there is probably more disease in the community than the numbers reflect" as testing laboratories clear backlogs.
Premier Dominic Perrottet will join his state and territory counterparts at an emergency national cabinet meeting on Thursday, seeking countrywide consistency on close contact definitions and isolation periods.
Rapid antigen tests - and the crucial question of who pays for them - are also expected to be on the agenda as a number of states and territories join NSW in reporting record-high daily case numbers as the Omicron variant takes hold around the country.
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