According to Hunter New England Health, the person from Chisholm was infectious in the community and linked to a workplace exposure.

Across the Hunter New England Health district, five new cases have been recorded including three in Lake Macquarie and one in Port Stephens.

The five new cases take the total number in the current outbreak to 232. There are currently 105 active cases.

Eight of the total active cases are currently being cared for in hospital and one is in ICU.

NSW Health also listed new exposure sites at Port Stephens Bunnings at Taylors Beach on August 27 and September 1, Cellarbrations Bottle Shop at Shoal Bay on August 30 and September 1, and Thornton Subway on September 3.

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NSW recorded 1281 new cases and five deaths in the 24-hour period up to 8pm on Sunday (September 5).

Around 11,000 COVID patients are being cared for by NSW health, 177 are in intensive care and 67 are on ventilators.

"According to the modelling I have received, we are likely to reach a peak in cases in the next week or so," Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.

"Therefore our likely peak in intensive care beds required around early, mid-October. So that is what the best modelling tells us at this stage, but I do want to qualify that by saying that a number of variables are associated with that modelling."

In the last 24 hours 136,455 tests were conducted.

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