Four Covid cases in Kempsey, current Mid North Coast outbreak passes 50

The number of infections in the current outbreak has passed 50 with the source of all but one of the new cases unknown.

Four new Covid-19 cases have been reported in Kempsey.

Kempsey has recorded a further four cases of Covid-19 as the region's current outbreak continues.

The additional cases push the Mid North Coast’s total number past 50 since the beginning of the current NSW outbreak.

The majority of those cases have been in Kempsey.

In the last four weeks the local government area had recorded 23 positive tests.

Mid North Coast Local Health District chief executive Stewart Dowrick said while one of the new cases was linked to an known case, the source of the other three is under investigation.

“The North Coast Public Health Unit is currently investigating these cases and contact tracing is underway, including any potential exposure venues of public concern,” he said.

Covid-19 sewage fragments have also been detected in the Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie regions. 

On Friday Mr Dowrick said the detection at the Woolgoolga sewage treatment plant, in the Coffs Harbour local government area, was of particular concern.

Meanwhile, Coffs Harbour’s first-dose vaccination rate hit 90 per cent in the latest figures released on Monday. Its double dose rate is 57.9 per cent.

Kempsey’s first dose rate is slightly lower at 88.8 per cent while 58.7 per cent of people aged 15 and over had been given two doses of a Covid vaccine.