Three new COVID-19 cases diagnosed in NSW, with two in south west Sydney

Only three new cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed in NSW overnight, NSW Health said.

Two of the new cases are in people from south west Sydney, where there is an ongoing outbreak.

One person went to funeral, with that cluster now linked to 73 cases, Dr Jeremy McAnulty said.

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The third is in a person is a returned traveller in hotel quarantine.

Another earlier diagnosed case was discounted, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 3770.

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Almost 14,000 tests have been done over the past 24 hours.

"COVID-19 is continuing to circulate so maintaining high rates of testing is really important," Dr McAnulty said.

While the case numbers are low, Dr McNulty said there are 16 people who caught the virus in the past four weeks, mostly in south-west and western Sydney, and don't know where they got it from.

A total of 122 cases are being treated by NSW Health, with almost 90 per cent of people not in hospital.

There are seven people intensive care and five are on ventilators

Dr McNulty warned people with any symptoms to get tested immediately.

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