Since New Year's Day, 98 new cases have been reported in Albury, bringing the city's active case tally to 234.

There are currently 37 active cases in Wodonga, with 14 new reported yesterday.

But Albury Wodonga Health remains in a comfortable position as a major increase in hospital admissions has not been seen.

AWH executive director of public health Lucie Shanahan said there were six COVID-positive patients in Albury Hospital but none required intensive care.

"Interestingly, most people are presenting because of other health concerns and happened to be COVID positive as well," she said.

"With the advent of Omicron, the key thing that we are really trying to focus on is not the number of new cases per se, but the impact on health services and therefore hospitalisation rates.

"Albury Wodonga Health has not surprisingly seen a significant increase in the number of COVID-positive cases within our region over the Christmas and New Year period.

"We certainly did predict this given the opening up of states with travel and the easing of restrictions and also with the emergence of the Omicron variant within Australia, which we know is more transmissible than the Delta variant."

North of the Border, there are 11 COVID-19 patients across Murrumbidgee Local Health District being cared for in hospital, one of whom is ventilated.

The Murrumbidgee Local Health District has 1271 active cases of COVID-19.

MLHD said there had been "unprecedented demand on testing clinics" and NSW Health would prioritise "clinically urgent" tests.

This includes healthcare workers, household contacts, people with symptoms of COVID-19 or who have had a positive RAT test and people who have been asked by NSW Health to get tested.

"Testing for travel is not advised at MLHD Clinics as, due to high demand, people should expect to wait over 72 hours for results," they said.

However, waits longer than 48 hours are being experienced by symptomatic people.

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Both MLHD and AWH are urging people to book in for their booster shot.

Ms Shanahan said "something like eight million Australians are now eligible".

"On Tuesdays and Thursday evenings, the vaccination hub is open until 6pm," she said.

"We hope that with appointments after work ... we're able to support people to either have their children vaccinated for the first time, or for those aged 18 and over to receive booster doses."