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Calls for more testing as new COVID-19 cases fall

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NSW Acting Premier John Barilaro addresses the media in Sydney, Monday, January 4, 2021. Source: AAP

New South Wales records zero locally-acquired coronavirus cases for the first time in weeks. Health officials set a challenge to get testing numbers as high as 50,000 a day.


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