Testing times: Facing a long, slow COVID queue

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Testing times: Facing a long, slow COVID queue

police testing station, Northcote
Police stand by as cars inch towards the testing station at Northcote this morning

Pharmacy Today reporter Anna Lee spent nearly five hours in a queue at a COVID-19 testing centre on a day when four cases of community transmission forced Aucklanders to show up in droves

No less than five minutes after joining the queue, I regretted it. Rumour had it there was a two-hour wait for this testing station. If only that had