38540421990dd0c7e64e7b14d78333db
Friday, 7 March 2025
Menu
Testing blitz for travellers returning from NSW
1 min read

More than 1500 people have been tested for COVID over the past four days in a Warragul testing blitz of holidaymakers returning from New South Wales.

Two testing sites in Warragul have been inundated since Friday after Victorian-New South Wales border closures forced many holidaymakers to pack up and head home.

Many escaped the 14-day isolation requirements by returning before midnight on Thursday night but everyone re-entering Victoria from NSW that day was required to be COVID tested and isolate until receiving results.

Cars queued for hours on the weekend as the West Gippsland Healthcare Group opened a pop-up drive-thru clinic at its Gladstone St premises.

At peak times, cars lined Gladstone St, along Queen St and north along Mason St with the wait time topping two hours for some people.

During the first three days, the pop-up clinic tested 789 people while the Warragul Respiratory Clinic tested 476.

More than 210 people were tested at the two sites again yesterday.