At today's media briefing (January 15), NSW Premier Gladys Berjeklian shared the good news that there was zero case in the last two days,
While she was glad that more than 16,000 people came forward for testing yesterday, she was still cautious in saying that she wanted to see that number increase before restrictions could be eased.
She said: "The Government is very much in the space of considering health advice easing restrictions and I want to make that clear.
"But we won't have the confidence to do that unless we have higher rates of testing, because that will assure us that we have captured all previously undetected cases of the virus, which may still be infectious in the community."
Ms Berejiklian refused to specify what could change next week for Greater Sydney, although saying they were looking at possible easing of restrictions.
Currently, the wearing of masks is mandatory masks in venues including supermarkets and on public transport and visitors at home are limited to five people.
"We would much rather have a holistic change in restrictions rather than doing it in little pieces," she said.