A new freight-friendly COVID testing site is opening at Marulan on Monday to support the freight industry and keep drivers COVIDSafe.
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The Marulan site will open at 7am on Monday at the BP Service Centre, southbound, on the Hume Highway and will be 24/7 pathology assisted.
Minister for Regional Transport and Roads Paul Toole said it was one of two new pop-up sites in NSW, the other on the Hunter Expressway near Newcastle, to make it easier for truckies and other freight workers to get tested and help them keep essential supplies moving across NSW and interstate.
"It's been 12 months since we opened the first freight testing sites at Tarcutta and Narrandera, and we are continuing to see significant demand across the eight sites already open," Mr Toole said.
"So far, more than 51,000 tests have been carried out across all our testing sites - remarkably, more than half of those in the last four weeks alone.
"These testing sites have proven invaluable in helping the freight industry meet the challenges the Delta strain has presented by providing a simple and easy option for drivers to meet the testing requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
"We're expecting this demand for our testing sites to only continue, as we've seen a 4900 per cent increase in our testing numbers at our Taree site and a 1750 per cent increase at our Tarcutta site since June this year."
The Wetherill Park freight-friendly testing site will close permanently at 4pm Friday, 3 September due to the end of Transport's lease agreement with the landowner.
The NSW Government is continuing to work closely with the freight industry to investigate more options for testing sites across the state.
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