NSW Labor leader Jodi McKay has called for COVID-19 testing to be expanded in south-west Sydney as hundreds of cars lined up for over four hours at the Crossroads Hotel pop-up clinic | natassiazc
The pop-up clinic was established in the pub's car park on Friday evening after two people, who. Queues of more than a kilometre were reported over the weekend.
He and three friends, who were getting tested because they had been in proximity, said the line "was much longer than expected". But they persevered because they needed the test results to go back to work. Ms McKay arrived at the car park at midday and called for a "massive expansion of testing" in response to the waiting times that thousands of people were facing.
She said she had seen a number of cars leave the queue as people had work commitments, ran out of petrol, or didn't allow enough time because they thought it would be a quicker process.Credit:"It needs to be as easy as possible ... I cannot understand why we have just one pop-up clinic here in this area," she said.
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