New cases top 11,000 nationwide amid stoush over ‘tourism testing’ – as it happened
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More footage of those queues – this one in Sydney. Yikes. A big thank you to everyone involved for their patience …
Back on those testing queues, waiting times for results and calls for more rapid antigen testing.
Of the people AAP spoke to, around half were from interstate and were required to take a PCR test. Car batteries were going flat in the line and people, including the elderly, were forced to wait for hours in hot vehicles.
The numbers appear to correlate with people lining up in the ACT to get tested, with the territory’s health minister saying anecdotal evidence from testing teams pointed to half of all swabs being for people getting tested to travel.
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