Further testing of Tamworth's sewage expected to provide results on Saturday as city records no COVID-19 cases on Friday

NSW Health confirmed the latest sample taken on Tuesday found fragments of the COVID-19 virus, and Tamworth Regional Council expected a follow up test would provide new results on Saturday.

"We will have another sewer test ... sent to Sydney [on Thursday afternoon] and the results of that will be available on Saturday," mayor Col Murray said.

No new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the region in the 24 hours to 8pm on Thursday, meaning the city has remained free of the virus since April last year.

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Authorities remain concerned about the COVID-19 detection in the sewage considering there are no known cases in the area, and the plant services about 45,000 people locally.

The detection comes three weeks after a positive COVID-19 case unknowingly visited Tamworth, though no cases in the area have been confirmed since.

Tamworth MP Kevin Anderson said it was a "wake up call" for people to get tested and vaccinated.

Testing levels across the city have taken a dive and data from Hunter New England Health (HNEH) shows in the past few days in Tamworth, 387 people were tested on August 20; 216 were swabbed the next day; and 211 were swabbed on August 22.

A COVID-19 swab can be sought at the Plain Street drive-through, the Tamworth hospital, the respiratory clinic and Douglass Hanly Moir pathology.

It's understood the AELEC drive-through may reopen if demand requires.

The state recorded 882 cases of community transmission on Friday, and two of those cases were in the HNEH district.

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