Decision to close or reduce operating hours at 77% of NSW testing sites into New Year comes as infections soar to record numbers
to people needing a test to travel interstate for Christmas, urged people to be patient and said for most sites the wait was 40 minutes on average.
“They’re not a close contact, they’re not even a casual contact, they just want to travel to another state. Morrison said PCR tests should be used for close contacts and the symptomatic, rather than people wanting to “get on a plane”.
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