WA Premier Mark McGowan has taken another dig at NSW’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic while praising the “amazing” record number of people in his state for getting tested.
Mr McGowan said more people were tested on the first day of lockdown in parts of WA this week than the day after the outbreak in Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
The total number of tests on Monday was 16,490.
“It was an incredible result,” Mr McGowan told reporters.
“Thank you to everyone who came forward and got tested. You’ve all done your state proud.
“To put that testing number into comparison, this is more than double the number of tests completed the day after the Northern Beaches outbreak in Sydney.”
NSW recorded 7531 tests on December 18 — the day after the Northern Beaches cluster was revealed.
But that number actually reflected tests processed in the 24 hours to 8pm the day before.
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