22 January

Try as they might, the NSW Government cannot get higher testing numbers in W and SW Sydney. (Note this is actually a daily testing figure of only about 11,000, 6,000 are carried forward from yesterday.) There are all sorts of complex socio-economic-psychological reasons for that. This was one of the main reasons skilled and experienced public health people were arguing for movement and gathering restrictions there. Testing and tracing alone can't beat a pandemic.