Australia has recorded another 28 COVID-19 deaths.
Victoria reported 16 fatalities and there were 12 in NSW on Wednesday.
In NSW, there were 8,271 new COVID-19 cases as more restrictions are set to ease across the state.
There are 121 patients in hospital, with 59 of them in intensive care.
NSW Health reports 52.6 per cent of people have now received a COVID-19 booster shot.
The requirement to wear face masks indoors will mostly end on Friday but the masks will remain compulsory on public transport, at airports and on planes, as well as in hospitals, aged and disability care facilities.
Masks will also still be required to enter prisons and for indoor music festivals with more than 1,000 people.
On Monday, a swathe of COVID-19 restrictions will ease in schools, with high school students and staff no longer required to wear masks.
Parents will be allowed back on school campuses, year groups will be able to mix freely and assemblies and school camps are back.
Staff and students will no longer be required to undertake twice-weekly rapid antigen tests, unless they have symptoms.
Teachers and staff at primary schools and childcare centres will no longer have to mask up from 7 March.
Meanwhile, Victoria recorded another 6,715 COVID-19 infections.
There are 41,257 active cases in the state.
The number of people in hospital with the virus has risen by three from Wednesday, with some 319 infected people in hospital.
Of these, 43 are in intensive care and five on ventilators.
More than 57 per cent of Victorian adults have received three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
The latest figures come one day before the state is due to ease indoor mask-wearing and working from home rules.
Additionally, all remaining elective surgery restrictions will lift on Monday.
Primary school students in year 3 or above will continue to wear masks, as will teachers, but secondary students will not.
Masks will still be required on public transport, in taxis and rideshares, on planes, in airports and at hospitals and care facilities.
Hospitality, retail, court and corrective services workers will still have to don a mask.
