The Hunter New England Health district recorded two new coronavirus cases on Monday.
The health district has reported just eight new positive tests in the past seven days. Four of those days have been free of new cases.
The HNEH total now stands at 278 after one new case in the Newcastle local government area in the 24 hours to 8pm on Sunday night and one in Lake Macquarie.
Newcastle has had 55 confirmed cases since the pandemic began and Lake Macquarie 57.
The new Newcastle case was in the inner-city 2300 postcode and the Lake Macquarie case in Windale.
Eastern Lake Macquarie is no longer on the list of NSW Health coronavirus "hot spots" being targeted for extra testing.
NSW added just six new cases on Sunday.
The state's death toll stands at 30 after a 94-year-old resident of the Anglicare Newmarch House nursing home in western Sydney died of COVID-19 complications.
The nursing home has 41 confirmed cases, including 14 staff and 27 residents.
The national death toll is 71.
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