With a negative test required to enter several states, many travellers fear their results may not be known before departure
Increasing demand for Covid tests has seen waiting times for test results blow out to up to five days.Increasing demand for Covid tests has seen waiting times for test results blow out to up to five days.Surgingacross Australia has led to waiting times of up to five days for results, with travellers now worried they won’t get a negative result in time to travel across state borders for Christmas.
“Most people looked like they were getting tested for interstate travel,” he said. “It’ll get interesting if my result isn’t back by boarding time.”received their test results within a reasonable timeframe, but Nicolas Ronsmans had just passed the five-day mark. “There’s no phone number you can call if the results haven’t come back yet. Everything and everyone will redirect you to the SMS number with automated replies as well as a web version of the same service.”
“My partner got her results at 2am this morning,” she said on Monday. “After 40 minutes on hold to the pathology hotline, apparently mine has been separated into another batch and I’m unlikely to get results until this evening, 80 hours after the test.” “If my waiting times are normal, the isolation period will be longer than the original 72 hours, and my guess is that most new arrivals won’t have planned a living situation where you can isolate for that long,” Thomas said.
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