Testing times: workers’ three years on Covid frontline comes to an end as NSW clinics close

‘I’m sad to go’ … Brooke Stanton tests a driver on her final day working at the Chifley Covid clinic. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

Most Australians will be glad to see the end of having a stranger shove a swab up their nose to test for Covid-19.

Likely even more so, the hours spent in a snaking queue of cars in the mid-summer heat to get a PCR test after a holiday cut short. Or being in the queue because you’d sooner see a blue moon than find a rapid antigen test.