At 40 weeks pregnant, Emma must queue for a COVID test every three days | marywardy
At 7am on Monday, Emma Micklewright was where she has been every third morning for the past three weeks: waiting for a COVID-19 test.
“You have to queue for two hours at some places, and you’re in a queue with people where you don’t know if they are symptomatic,” she said. While some clinics identify vulnerable people in the queue and bring them forward, as occurred when Ms Micklewright lined up at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital last week, she said others did not.
Dr Uppal said there needed to be consistent guidelines on pre-birth screening, with the current rules often resulting in unnecessary stress.As case numbers climb in Sydney, expectant parents face tighter restrictions for hospital visitors., meaning a patient can only have a visitor if allowed an exemption by the local health district following a risk assessment.
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