Sydney residents are attending COVID-19 drive-through testing clinics in record numbers as the city works to shut down the Northern Beaches cluster in time for Christmas.
Lines at the Manly Hospital testing clinic are said to be the "longest ever seen" while those at the Curl Curl testing location as said to be several hours long.
Yesterday more than 38,000 NSW residents came forward to be tested for the virus, setting a new benchmark for daily tests since the start of the pandemic.
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NSW Health is urging anybody in the state with even the mildest symptoms – such as headache, fatigue, cough, sore throat or a runny nose – to come forward immediately for testing.
Everyone who is tested is also urged to then isolate until they receive a negative result.
The lines come as Sydney's Northern Beaches endures a stay-at-home public health order, to be reviewed at midnight tomorrow night.
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Today there are just eight new cases of COVID-19, taking the total number linked to the Northern Beaches to 91.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said today's figures are a "pleasing" reduction from yesterday's case numbers, when 30 new infections were announced.
"To date, every single case we've had to date has been linked to the Avalon cluster, and that's how we want to keep it," Ms Berejiklian said.
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"Although, obviously some venues outside of the Northern Beaches have been impacted and there are issues that health officials are going through today."
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