SOCIAL distancing continues to do the job in the Hunter's battle against the pandemic, with a seven-day streak of no new cases remaining unbroken in data released on Sunday.
Figures released on Saturday for the Hunter New England Health district showed no new cases or recoveries, leaving the active case tally steady at 46 across the health district.
That included 277 confirmed cases and 231 recoveries by 8pm Friday evening.
Five more cases were added statewide in the same numbers, with more that 232,000 NSW residents testing negative to the condition.
Over the following 24 hours the statewide tally rose by four cases but no new cases emerged in the Hunter New England health district.
The latest data, which recorded cases up to 8pm Saturday night, also noted the recoveries of another three patients.
Those positive results deplete the number of active cases in the health district to 43.
Sunday's results mean it has been seven days since the Hunter last recorded a new case of coronavirus.
Health authorities have been clear it would take 28 days without a new case nationally to eradicate the virus.
Overall in NSW there have been 3035 cases, 2306 recoveries and 44 lives lost to coronavirus during the pandemic.
