‘It feels like they’re actively not wanting us to get tested,’ says one frustrated resident, while another who queued for hours said: ‘It’s not like we couldn’t logistically plan for this’

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When Sydney man Scott Sumner woke up in a “full sweat” at midnight on Monday with aches and cold symptoms he thought to himself: “This is not a good sign.”

It was more bad news when the Petersham resident arrived at the Summer Hill testing clinic about 8.15am on Tuesday to find a queue of cars he guessed was 3km long.