A BMW was surrounded in Sydney by furious workers after the driver allegedly tried to push in at a Covid-19 testing queue.
Despite changes to isolation and testing requirements for most of Australia in recent days, it hasn’t quelled the huge lines of cars – and people – at clinics around the country.
As case numbers continue to soar, thousands of Aussies have reported spending hours in a queue waiting for a PCR test.
And while they’ve been urged to exercise patience – and treat frontline workers with compassion, not everyone has taken the advice on board.
Facebook page Sydney Name and Shame shared a clip of a BMW attempting to cut the line at a testing centre somewhere in the NSW capital city.
“We’d been lining up in the covid test line for hours and this guy just pushes in behind me,” the driver captioned the clip.
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Zooming in on the BMW in her side mirror, she explained: “This guy has pushed in and everyone is so mad, as they should be. We’ve been in line for hours, and they’re (the workers) trying to usher him out.”
Despite the confrontation, the driver just would “not go”.
“It’s just this guy, he’s just shaking his head, he will not leave the line,” she said.
“What a d**k.”
The footage comes as it was announced that 54 Covid testing sites across Victoria will shut to deal with a backlog of testing mid overwhelming demand.
Private laboratories 4Cyte Pathology, ACL, Melbourne Pathology and Dorevitch Pathology will temporarily close testing centres in the state.
“I’m afraid that today four of our private sector laboratory partners have confirmed they are closing, temporarily suspending a number of their testing centres,” Victorian Covid commander Jeroen Weimar told reporters.
Mr Weimar said the labs would continue to work 24/7 to process the backlog of tests built up over the last few weeks.
In NSW, it’s a similar story, with 28 test sites across the state set to close.
Originally published as Furious tradies surround BMW for pushing in at Sydney Covid testing queue
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