Long lines at Queenstown pop-up Covid testing spot. Video / James Allan
Queenstown residents appear to have listened to director general of health Ashley Bloomfield and are doing their bit in the fight against Covid-19, with long lines at a pop-up testing location outside Frankton Pak'nSave this morning.
300 tests were completed by 11 am. Photo / James Allan
The pop-up testing site was set up in the car park and is setto run until 5pm.
It was opened earlier than 9am due to long lines and as of about 9.15am there were vehicle and pedestrian queues full of people waiting to get swabbed.
There were long lines at the pop-up testing spot at Frankton Pak'nSave this morning. Photo /James Allan
The pop-up testing site was set-up to reassure health authorities there is no community transmission in the town after a visit in early July from a South Korean man who later tested positive for Covid-19 after flying back home.
Bloomfield yesterday shared a video urging Queenstown residents to do their bit and get a Covid-19 test, as authorities try to rule out the possibility of undetected community transmission in the town.
Bloomfield shared the video yesterday after it was earlier revealed by the Ministry of Health there were two new Covid-19 cases in managed isolation.
"I'm strongly encouraging you, if you have symptoms, or even if you don't have symptoms, to go to the Pak'nSave ... to have a test.
"Please do your bit, go and get a swab [today]," Bloomfield said in the video.
