The streets of Wagga were lined with queues of people and cars on Friday, as locals turned up in droves to be tested against COVID-19 at one of the various local testing clinics.
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The Laverty drive-through testing clinic near the Riverina Playhouse had cars filing all the way up past St. John's Anglican Church, while the Murrumbidgee Local Health District testing clinic on Murray Street saw people lined up all the way around the block.
MLHD chief executive Jill Ludford said that the region "can scale up our testing as we need to" when asked about the long wait times people are facing locally on Friday.
"For example, we have a two lane drive through testing [clinic]; we can increase to three and four lanes," she added.
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Ms Ludford also said they are "recruiting staff all the time" when asked if more employees were being hired to assist with test processing.
"We've gone out and recruited a whole lot of casual workers," she said.
"We've actually finished on-boarding them, they are here and they are ready to enable us to be able to - as I said before - scale up that testing straight away."
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Emily Wind
Originally from Lake Macquarie, Emily kickstarted her journalism career in Tumut before moving to the Daily Advertiser in Wagga where she covers Health and Features. Got a story tip? Email emily.wind@austcommunitymedia.com.au, or call 0457 459 095.
Originally from Lake Macquarie, Emily kickstarted her journalism career in Tumut before moving to the Daily Advertiser in Wagga where she covers Health and Features. Got a story tip? Email emily.wind@austcommunitymedia.com.au, or call 0457 459 095.
