There are 1211 patients in hospital with the virus, 59 of them in intensive care and 27 ventilated.

NSW Health reports 52.6 per cent of people 16 and older have now received a COVID-19 booster shot.

Of the seven men and five women to have died from the virus in the latest reporting period, five were in their 70s, five were in their 80s, one was in their 90s and one was over 100.

Masks will no longer be need to be worn in shops from Friday, but 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 visit prisons and at indoor music festivals with more than 1000 people.

Meanwhile, Labor's Walt Secord says there is a "cabal of anti-vaxxers" among government MPs who have refused to get the jab, while the government has made it compulsory for frontline workers to be vaccinated.

The government "has one set of rules for the public and workers, and another for its own MPs", he told parliament on Wednesday.

More than 1100 unvaccinated public health workers had been forced to resign, he said.

"They force unvaccinated workers out of the workplace but they refuse to take action against their own," Mr Secord said.

"What's good enough for our health and other government workers should be good enough for this parliament."

Premier Dominic Perrottet said he was not aware of any unvaccinated coalition MPs but expected members of parliament to be vaccinated.

"I'm not going to go door-knocking people in parliament and ask them for their medical records," he told reporters on Thursday.

"We haven't mandated vaccination across the board but ultimately we strongly encourage people to get vaccinated and get boosted."

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 return.

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 March 7.

NSW Teachers Federation president Angelo Gavrielatos said it was a mistake to lift so many restrictions all at once while Omicron was still rife in the community.

Two schools in NSW were forced to close this week because of COVID-19 outbreaks.

"A steady approach, a graduated approach, would have been preferable in order to ensure that we monitor slowly how we might be getting out of this," he said.

NSW Health said 94.3 per cent of adults and 79 per cent of children aged 12 to 15 have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Australian Associated Press