Mr Hazzard said other students in the same cohort were also undergoing testing,while further test results are expected late on Friday afternoon.
The minister urged the community to maintain “perspective” over the latest cases.
“I think transmission is always a concern,but we also need to just keep it in perspective at the moment,that worldwide there’s not clarity around whether or not this particular variant is going to cause us anywhere near the problems that the earlier variants caused,” he said.
“We’re not seeing people suddenly being rushed to hospital. What we’re seeing is people who are either asymptomatic or have very mild symptoms,generally”.
Mr Hazzard said the confirmed student case was concerning because it was the first case in the state that did not have any travel history.
“It would appear that the case could well be a[transmission] on NSW soil,” he said.
On Friday,NSW reported its highest daily case total in six weeks,with 337 new infections and zero deaths. More than 260 new cases were recorded within metropolitan Sydney.