NSW records zero local COVID-19 cases, but two cases found after reporting period

NSW has been set a challenge to get testing numbers in the state as high as 50,000 a day, as authorities confirmed two new cases of COVID-19.

NSW has officially recorded zero locally-acquired coronavirus cases but two infections have been detected outside of the reporting period.

The two cases will be included in tomorrow’s numbers.

Of the two cases found overnight, one was a man in his 40s who visited the BWS in Berala in Western Sydney on December 24.

The other was a female in her 40s, who had “some association” with the BWS and the Woolworths at Berala, NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant said.

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