Armidale COVID-19 lockdown: Tamworth remains COVID-free as Armidale records fourth COVID-19 case, but virus has yet to spread outside family

The announcement by NSW Health comes as the city survives a fourth day without any confirmed spread of COVID-19 in the city, according to Friday update statistics.

The city is currently scheduled to leave lockdown on Tuesday August 17, after a week under a stay-at-home order.

Armidale recorded its fourth COVID-19 case, though the virus has not spread beyond a single household.

The Leader understands the case was recorded after the state's 8pm deadline. It was not reported by Premier Gladys Berejiklian at her 11am press conference on Friday.

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Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall announced the fourth Armidale case on Friday morning.

"I am informed the individual is from the same household as the other three cases and has been in isolation since last week and throughout their period of infection, meaning they present no risk to the community," he said.

"While any new case is not great news, this one is not unexpected. What the health experts know about the Delta strain is that when one person contracts it in a household, it's almost always transmitted to every other member of that household."

The Hunter New England region reported five new cases to 8pm on Thursday night, none of them in Tamworth or Armidale. The death of man in his 90s was recorded in the updated statistics.

Communities in western NSW face an escalating coronavirus outbreak.

Premier Berejiklian said Dubbo is becoming a "big challenge" with 25 new cases.

"The New South Wales government has been liaising with our federal colleagues as well to make sure that we get support to those communities in western New South Wales in far western New South Wales, and what we may need to do further in that area is being considered during the day today," she said.

Health Minister Brad Hazzard said Walgett's limited health resources would struggle to respond to a major coronavirus outbreak.

"They manage in normal times but trying to manage if there is a major outbreak with a one-in-100 year virus is going to be a challenge for them," he said.

"Is it a serious issue for the local community? It is, very much so. The ICU in a hospital in a place like that is nowhere near what we would expect in Sydney."

There were two new cases in Walgett included in the Friday updated statistics.

Across NSW, 391 people are in hospital with coronavirus, 63 of them are in intensive care, with 30 needing ventilation.

There were 390 additional coronavirus cases reported across NSW to 8pm last night, from 128,000 tests.

At least 60 of the new NSW cases were infectious in community, Premier Berejiklian said.

Some 105,000 people across the state received COVID-19 vaccinations in the 24 hour period.

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