An announcement will be made at 11am on Thursday by the state government as part of its daily coronavirus briefing.

Its crisis committee met on Wednesday afternoon to assess whether statewide stay-at-home rules would remain.

Speaking before that meeting, Deputy Premier John Barilaro said case numbers, sewage testing and diagnoses in nearby council areas would be considered before noting the impact of Sydney's worsening outbreak.

"As the risk increases in Sydney, the risk increases in the regions and just because you don't have a case today, you may one tomorrow, as we have seen overnight we now have a case in Kempsey," Mr Barilaro said.

"It's the first time there's been a case in Kempsey since April 2020.

"The question will be 'do you keep all of rural and regional NSW locked for a further week or two or do we start lifting it at LGA level?'."

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NSW Nationals deputy Paul Toole, who is in the crisis group, said "realistically people are expecting another seven days of stay-at-home orders in regional NSW".

The ACT on Wednesday reported a further 22 cases and a positive test was returned by a Goulburn resident who works in Canberra.

Mr Barilaro offered some hope of specific help for Border tourism businesses hurt by NSW and Victorian controls.

"I understand that Albury's had a number of lockdowns that have impacted those businesses," Mr Barilaro said.

"We were looking at additional support, especially in those tourism-type businesses, that package is still being considered.

"There may be some additional support for those businesses.

"That is something that will go to the expenditure review committee with the Treasurer, in the meantime those businesses are eligible for all these other supports.

"If they jump on the Service NSW website we've simplified it again.

"We know there was a backlog....we've got on top of that, average times are about two-and-half-hours if you were talking to a customer service operator, that's now down to ten minutes."

Mr Barilaro also continued to urge people to get vaccinated, saying individuals would be left behind if they were not immunised.

"Other states in this country will lock out NSW residents and we're seeing already with Queensland starting that precedent for people that aren't vaccinated you will have no level of movement," he said.