THE Hunter has recorded no new cases of COVID-19 as health officials confirm the source of infection for the region's most recent cluster remains a mystery.
NSW recorded seven new cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm on Sunday.
Six were acquired locally, three from known clusters. One was a returned traveller in hotel quarantine.
Hunter health officials have as yet been unable to identify the source of infection for a St Pius X student who tested positive earlier this month.
It comes as a report into the Ruby Princess prompted Premier Gladys Berejiklian to "apologise unreservedly" to anyone who suffered as a result of the mistakes made in allowing thousands of passengers to disembark from the ship before COVID-19 was ruled out.
"In particular to the 62 people who weren't on the ship but somehow contracted the virus as a consequence of that disembarkation," she said.
More than 260 cases of COVID-19 and 28 deaths were linked to the Ruby Princess, two of which were from Hunter New England.
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