The week-long lockdown for three regional New South Wales (NSW) towns are being lifted, releasing 60,000 people from the stay-at-home restrictions. The order imposed on Orange City Council, Blayney Shire Council and Cabonne Shire Council areas will be lifted, as scheduled, at 12.01 a.m. on Wednesday, NSW Health said. The towns were plunged into a snap lockdown on July 20 after a visiting Sydney delivery driver infected a local factory worker who then attended multiple venues. “There has been no further transmission of COVID-19 detected in the region,” NSW Health said. It comes after the six-week COVID-19 cluster in Greater Sydney and surrounds after NSW reached a new milestone with 172 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours to 8 p.m. on Monday which is a rise of 27 cases from Monday. At least 79 of those people were active in the community for all or part of …