Coronavirus Australia live news: NSW and Victorian health authorities to give coronavirus updates - ABC News

Seven new cases were acquired overseas and in hotel quarantine. And this brings the total number of cases [in NSW] to 4,776. There were 22,275 tests reported to 8:00pm last night which is up on the previous day, but again we're urging those test numbers to well exceed the 30,000. So that's the challenge I put to you.

So we particularly urging residents of western, south-western Sydney and Wollongong to come forward with even the mildest of symptoms. As the acting Premier indicated, we need to see those testing levels sustained and that's because people were at those exposure venues for a number of days and we need to have those high rates of testing because even if you were exposed, some people will develop only - only develop the illness up to 14 days since their last exposure and so we need those testing rates to be maintained at very high levels to [make sure] we're not missing those undetected chains of transmission.

So despite reporting no cases, there have been two cases overnight. One, a gentleman in his 40s who visited the BWS Berala at on 24 December. And another case, a female in her 40s, who also has some association with the BWS and the Woolworths at Berala, but those investigations are ongoing. 

And can I thank those individuals for coming forward for testing and also for their cooperation with the investigations. So just to summarise, the Berala cluster originated from returning overseas travellers and then there was a healthcare worker person who was involved in the transfer of those patients and then that person passed it on unknowingly to a close contact and that close contact went to the BWS.

Can I just stress that at the time where the person entered the BWS, they had no symptoms and no reason at all to think they had COVID infection.

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