Furious tradies surround luxury car for pushing in a Covid testing line
Images: Facebook
Despite changes to isolation and testing requirements for most of Australia in recent days, it hasn’t put an end to the huge lines of cars and people at testing clinics around the country.
As case numbers spike, thousands of Aussies have reported spending hours in a queue waiting for a PCR test. While they’ve been urged to exercise patience, and treat frontline workers with compassion, not everyone has followed this advice.
Facebook page Sydney Name and Shame, shared a clip of a BMW attempting to cut the line at a testing centre.
“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.
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.”
As the BMW tries to advance their way in the queue, a group of furious tradies surrounded the car to stop them from moving any further, and letting the people the car cut off go back in their original place.
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 cope with a backlog of testing due to the 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.