Hundreds of thousands of Australians are again embroiled in Covid testing chaos with dozens of centres closed after reaching capacity.
In New South Wales, the country’s new virus epicentre where daily cases spiked to 5715 cases in the past 24 hours, locals were forced to wait hours while 160,000 tests were taken on Wednesday.
Dr Greg Granger, who’s working at a testing site in the city’s eastern suburbs, said there is an “degree of desperation” as Covid cases reach devastating new highs.“This area of Sydney has a high number of exposure sites so the testing numbers are high but this pattern has been trending all through Sydney and all through regional and rural Australia as well.”People lining up to get tested at the Victoria Park testing site in Adelaide.
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