A whole team of 14 shearers and shed hands were locked down south of Wilcannia after a shearer who went into town picked up COVID-19. He was tested before leaving the property and came back positive.

Wilcannia is now on high alert after COVID broke out there a week ago following a large funeral gathering, with many cases listed in the last week.

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Unfortunately the shearing team will have to be locked in for 14 days just as they had finished shearing - which means two shearers living in each of eight rooms. It is believed the station owners' family have been relocated from the property.

Meantime, a shearing team at Goodooga has had a flying visit from a nursing team from the Royal Flying Doctor Service offering the Pfizer vaccinations to shearers from Muddy's Quality shearing.

Steven Mudford said that his shearing team was at Bangate Station shearing, when they had a call from the RFDS nurses.

They were nearby Goodooga and said they had extra Pfizer vaccinations available if the shearers wanted to take part. There had not been as much uptake as expected in the RFDS clinic in the Goodooga township.

The nurses drove 30 minutes to the station set up a clinic in the shearing shed and vaccinated all but two of the shearers.

Mr Mudford said he accepted the offer with both hands - both he and his wife had their first Pfizer jabs, and said there should be more of such workplace vaccination offers.

The shearing industry was finding it tough to complete business during the current regional lockdown. Even though shearers had been classified as essential workers, he'd already had one of this team turned back on the highway by Highway Patrol police near Dubbo, despite the worker explaining his situation.

Mr Mudford said he would be taking it up with state Barwon MP Roy Butler to see if more could be done to get vaccinations for remote NSW workers, and preferably onsite when, as in their case where they were working.

He employs almost 60 shearers and shed hands.

"This was a good news story and we thank the RFDS for coming out," he said.

"This will enable all of us to keep working. They are offering clinics for vaccination at Gilgandra on September 11 and 12, but we need to keep working now.

"It will benefit people at any ate if they had more of this at the workplace. It also saves a day off going to get the jab."