A 90-year-old man who was a resident of the Opal Care aged facility in Bankstown died in Liverpool Hospital overnight.
An 87-year-old woman also passed away.
She had recently been a passenger on the doomed Ruby Princess cruise ship.
It was earlier confirmed that a 90-year-old man who was a resident at the Dorothy Henderson Lodge had also died overnight.
Forty-five people have now died in Australia, including a South Australian man and a Victorian overnight.
NSW this morning recorded 49 new cases of the virus, a decrease from Monday’s 57.
In a press conference this morning, NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant urged anyone with symptoms in certain areas with high rates of community transmission, to get tested for the virus.
“We take this opportunity to encourage people to come forward for testing if they’ve got symptoms in the areas Waverley, Woollahra, Dee Why, Lake Macquarie, Manning, Nowra, Byron and Port Macquarie,” she said.
“In those areas, we have seen a case, or cases, of local transmission where we haven’t been able to find the source.
“It is important at this time as we try and suppress the numbers of Covid-19 in the community that we basically elevate and raise testing levels in the vicinity of those areas.”
During the press conference, Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced a $100 million package to support frontline healthcare workers, including free hotel accommodation.
“They want to protect their families, they want to protect their loved ones, and that’s why we’re offering free accommodation and free parking for our health workers so they don’t have to worry about taking the disease home, and unintentionally passing it on to their loved ones,” she said.
“At least that’s one less thing for them to have to worry about.”
The Premier also announced an additional $35 million dollars which will go towards research on the virus.
