New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian wants more local residents to be tested for COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP virus, before she eases restrictions. The state has recorded zero new locally acquired cases for the third day in a row while the northern beaches and Berala clusters have appeared to have been all but stamped out. Testing numbers have nearly doubled after the government’s plea on Tuesday morning, with 19,959 people tests occurring in the 24 hours to 8 p.m. on Tuesday evening, up from 10,621 the day before. However, this number is still a long way short of the daily record, set at above 60,000 tests in one day just before Christmas as the northern beaches cluster spread. “We’re definitely in the space of wanting to ease those restrictions that are in place currently but it depends on the rate of testing and the number of cases,” Berejiklian told …