The death of a 90-year-old man at Sydney nursing home Dorothy Henderson Lodge yesterday brought the NSW death toll to 19 and the national toll to 41. Loading While NSW’s total number of confirmed cases rose by just 57 on Sunday to reach 2637, the number of COVID-19 cases acquired in the community from an unknown source continued to rise. NSW Health’s Dr Jeremy McAnulty said the drop in new cases was hopeful, but warned fewer tests were performed over the weekend. On Sunday, 2595 tests were done; last Monday the figure was 5592. The number of total cases in Broken Hill has remained between one and four since the first case on March 31 and the cases in the Byron Bay area has remained steady at 13 for the past five days. But the area has had a 63 per cent increase in case numbers since last Tuesday, one of the highest in the state.

Over the same time period, Shoalhaven, which encompasses Nowra, has had a 50 per cent rise, while the Northern Beaches and Ryde have recorded a 30 per cent increase and Lake Macquarie and Port-Macquarie-Hastings have seen a 20 per cent rise. Waverley, which has the highest number of cases in the state, has recorded an 18 per cent increase in cases since last Tuesday; the Mid-Coast, which encompasses Manning, has had a 15 per cent rise; and the number of cases in Woollahra has increased 9 per cent. Waverley and the Northern Beaches are among the places with the highest figure of locally acquired cases with an unknown source at 34 and 21 cases respectively. Ryde has 11 cases, Woollahra has eight, Port Macquarie has five cases. Meanwhile, Broken Hill, Shoalhaven, Mid-Coast and Lake Macquarie have between one and four cases. A spokesperson for NSW Health said it was increasing testing in areas where there are some community transmissions and areas where there have been clusters.

‘‘These are areas which we believe may be at elevated risk of community transmission, and we are encouraging people in these areas with symptoms to be tested for COVID-19,’’ the spokesperson said. ‘‘By finding those cases early and identifying appropriate isolation and quarantining of close contacts, we can help prevent onward transmission in the community.’’ Given the rapid cluster growth in Waverley last week, Bondi Beach's car park at Park Drive North has been converted into a drive-through testing clinic, allowing motorists to be tested from their cars. The drive-through will operate between 9am and 4pm daily and will accept patients who live or work at Bondi Beach or Bondi Junction and who have fever, or history of fever, or symptoms of acute respiratory infection - including cough, shortness of breath or a sore throat.