Another person with COVID-19 has died in western New South Wales.
The Aboriginal woman in her 70s, from Enngonia, north of Bourke, died at Dubbo Base Hospital.
She is the second person in the western region to die with the virus since NSW's Delta outbreak in mid-June.
She was unvaccinated.
An Aboriginal man from Dubbo died in hospital in late-August with COVID-19.
Health authorities said he had significant underlying health conditions.
Western NSW Local Health District (WNSWLHD) Chief Executive Scott McLachlan passed on his condolences to the woman's family.
"Our sincere thoughts and sympathies go out to the family, to friends and the broader community," he said.
"This is a very sombre reminder of the tragic outcomes that can happen when people get COVID.
"They sadly deteriorate very quickly with this virus."
No store, no hospital, no doctor
Labor's Indigenous affairs spokesperson, Linda Burney, said Enngonia was ill-equipped to deal with the growing number of COVID cases.
"Enngonia is a tiny community and it does not have a hospital, it doesn't have a store, and it certainly doesn't have a doctor," she said.
"The death ... is symptomatic of what is happening in the regions. Enngonia is a long way away and it has no resources.
"There cannot be a mad scramble every time there is an outbreak in regional Australia — if that is the approach, then we are going to see more tragedy."
She said any remaining vaccine hesitancy within Aboriginal communities was because the jabs' safety had not been properly explained.
"Vaccine hesitancy comes in place of no decent communication strategy.
Mr McLachlan said a lot of work was being done to effectively communicate with remote Aboriginal communities.
"In Enngonia, Bourke and surrounding communities, there's a lot of elders and leaders in the community that are playing a significant role in helping to communicate updates," he said.
"There's a lot of avenues out there, but I guess we can always improve.
"What we are seeing though is a significant increase in the number of Aboriginal people getting vaccinated in the last couple of weeks."
