NSW has recorded no new locally acquired coronavirus cases over a designated 24-hour period for the first time in almost three weeks.
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In the 24 hours to 8pm Sunday, the state recorded only seven new cases in returned overseas travellers in hotel quarantine.
But two new local cases were recorded after that 24-hour period ended.
The cases are connected to the Berala BWS case, Acting Premier John Barilaro said on Monday.
Despite the better news, Mr Barilaro said testing numbers were still "far too low" and implored residents in western Sydney to attend clinics if they have the slightest of symptoms, even if they have been tested previously.
Some 22,275 people were tested in the 24-hour period ended Snday night, up slightly from 18,923 the previous day.
The government wants to see about 30,000 or 40,000 tests a day.
Meanwhile, Police Minister David Elliot has described a breach of public health orders by a venue operator which allowed 700 people to attend a wedding at its southwest Sydney site on Saturday as "baffling".
Police say the operator will be fined $5000 after officers attended the venue on Spencer St in Fairfield on Saturday. It has a COVID-safe capacity of 350.
"It is a terrible start to the police week ... and it is baffling that somebody would breach it so badly," Mr Elliot told the Nine Netwrok on Monday.
"This isn't one or two people coming from an area in lockdown or, you know, this isn't a dozen people that turned up unannounced, this is twice the amount of people that were allowed to attend that wedding reception in an area not far from Berala."
Guests at the wedding have not yet been fined.
Meanwhile, Sydneysiders who flout new mandatory mask rules from Monday now risk a $200 fine.
But Health Minister Brad Hazzard has asked NSW police to exercise discretion in handing out fines to those who ignore the new rules.
Masks are mandatory in shopping centres, on public transport, in places of worship, hair and beauty premises, entertainment venues such as cinemas and other indoor venues like post offices and banks.
Hospitality workers are also required to wear one.
Mandatory masks have been introduced as a suburban bottle shop causes a headache for authorities trying to limit the spread of coronavirus.
BWS in Berala, in the city's west, was an exposure site for up to nine hours a day every day between December 22 and New Year's Eve, skipping only Christmas Day.
Tens of thousands of people have been affected.
Most who dropped by the bottle shop across the Christmas period are now considered close contacts and need to isolate for 14 days even if they only attended the outlet for a short time.
More than 1000 people attended on Christmas Eve alone.
Genetic sequencing has revealed the source of the Berala cluster is a patient transfer worker who took a family of returned overseas travellers to a health facility.
The worker became infected and passed the virus to a colleague, who attended the Berala bottle shop for a "very fleeting amount of time" on December 20.
Mr Barilaro said earlier on Monday the government would have no qualms about tightening restrictions - or imposing a lockdown - around Berala if unsourced COVID-19 cases began to emerge.
He admitted contact tracing at the BWS was a colossal task, as QR codes are not mandatory at NSW bottle shops.
"We will always consider what we can do in relation to a lockdown, further restrictions, especially where there is a hot spot," he told the Nine Network.
"One of the things we said when we were lifting restrictions was that if we had to respond, it would be fast and it would be hard and local, just like we have done for the (northern beaches) peninsula."
The northern part of the northern beaches peninsula remains under stay-at-home orders. Those orders will remain in place until at least Saturday.
NSW Health is currently treating 125 people with COVID-19, none of whom are in intensive care.
Australian Associated Press
