NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has urged more people to get tested ahead of the school holidays despite a low number of locally acquired cases | rachelclun marywardy
"[NSW is] potentially on track to zero but to be out of the woods you don't necessarily have to have zero but you do have to have between zero and four cases every day for twice an average incubation period," she said.
Her comments come as residents from NSW and the ACT could be able to visit South Australia without quarantine as early as this week, with a decision on the matter expected on Tuesday. NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Tony Crandell, who heads the police coronavirus operation, said the Public Health Order
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