A Wollongong woman has been confirmed as a new COVID-19 case linked to the Casula Crossroads Hotel cluster.
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As at 8am on Monday, there were 128 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District.
The most recent case is a woman from the Wollongong local government area aged in her 50s, who is currently isolating at home.
This case is linked to the Crossroads Hotel cluster.
There are eight active cases in the district with none of the patients requiring hospitalisation.
To date, there have been 57,139 tests conducted in the district.
Across the state, there were 20 new cases confirmed overnight with total number of cases in NSW at 3399.
There are 96 people being treated by NSW Health with two people in intensive care and one of those cases on a ventilator.
Chief Medical Officer Dr Kerry Chant advised of the 20 new cases, there were three people linked to the Casula Crossroads Hotel cluster, bringing the total number of cases to 48.
Eight were related to the Thai Rock restaurant in Wetherill Park mall.
Four people were linked to the Batemans Bay Soldiers Club, which included two diners, one staff member and one contact of a known case.
Four people were returned travellers from overseas who were self isolating and one person had been infected in Victoria and was isolating upon their return to NSW.
During a morning press conference, Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the next few weeks would be "critical" for controlling the spread of coronavirus.
"Our state continues to be on extremely high alert...and at a critical point," she said. "We have the opportunity to isolate the cases, we have to clamp down, and make sure we reduce the incidence of the virus spreading.
"Unfortunately other places don't have that opportunity.
"We have the ability to keep moving forward."
Anyone diagnosed with COVID-19 and their close contacts are either being treated in hospital or are in self-isolation while required, to ensure there is no ongoing risk of infection to others in the community.
The ISLHD Public Health Unit is contacting close contacts of the new cases, who are being asked to self-isolate for 14 days from last contact.
They will be contacted regularly to check that they are well and any contact who develops COVID-19 symptoms will be tested for the infection.
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