Covid test: Where to go to avoid queues

Beat the heat and beat the lines to get a Covid test by using our handy list of where to go and where to avoid.

No one wants to be stuck in a line waiting to get a Covid test.

As Covid cases continue to grow in Melbourne, many people are being forced to wait hours in queues to get tested. But there are testing sites where you won’t get stuck waiting, so you can get your results in a timely manner.

Western Health, Sunbury — 30 minutes

Moonee Valley Racecourse drive through testing — Over capacity, avoid

Melbourne Showgrounds drive through — 30 minutes

Victoria University Maidstone drive through — Half an hour

The Royal Children’s Hospital — Over capacity, avoid

Northern Health, Epping — Over capacity, avoid

Coolaroo Testing Hub — Over capacity, avoid

Keilor Basketball Netball Stadium drive through — One hour

Dallas Shopping Centre Carpark — One hour

IPC Health Deer Park drive through — 30 minutes

Victoria University St Albans Campus drive through — One hour

Hume City Council, 24 Pearcedale Pde, Broadmeadows — 30 minutes

Wootten Road Reserve Drive Through Tarneit — Over capacity, avoid

Western Health drive through in Melton — Two hours

IPC Health, Wyndham Health — Three hours

Melton Football Club drive through — Two hours

Wyuna Walk Mooroolbark — Over capacity, avoid

Wantirna Health, Wantirna Trash and Treasure Market — Over capacity, avoid

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital — Over capacity, avoid

Darebin Arts Centre — Two and a half hours

4Cyte Pathology Harry Atkinson Centre Coburg North — Over capacity, avoid

Glenroy Hall — Over capacity, avoid

Cohealth Collingwood — Two hours

Central Bayside Community Health Services Cheltenham — Over capacity, avoid

Peninsula Health, Frankston Hospital, Yuille St — 90 minutes

Cranbourne Testing Hub, 1280 Thompsons Rd — Two hours

Chisholm TAFE, Berwick — 30 minutes

Burwood Testing Hub, Deakin Uni — Over capacity, avoid

Monash University, Clayton — 90 minutes

Aughtie Walk, Albert Park — 90 minutes

Alfred Health, The Alfred — Over capacity, avoid