Crazy queue for Covid testing in Deer Park as 51,033 results received in past 24 hours

Melburnians have come out in droves for Covid-19 testing, with one photo in the city’s suburbs perfectly capturing the extent of the madness.

Melburnians have come out for Covid testing in droves on Wednesday morning, with a massive queue of cars stretching for kilometres along a major road in the city’s western suburbs.

Vision from a Channel 10 helicopter captured a huge line of cars waiting for a coronavirus test at the drive-through testing site at IPC Health in Deer Park.

Vehicles queue for kilometres along Station Rd as Melburnians answer the call to get tested.

It comes as Victoria’s seven-day snap lockdown is likely to be extended after the state recorded a further six local cases on Wednesday.

A massive total of 51,033 test results were sent out in the past 24 hours.

Greater demand is expected at testing sites over the next few days, as health authorities listed six popular shopping sites that could have been exposed to coronavirus.

Greater demand is expected at testing sites. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw

One of the sites – Brimbank shopping centre – is the local shopping precinct to Deer Park.

The other shopping centres of concern are Craigieburn Central, Bay Street/ Clarendon Street in South Melbourne, Pacific Epping, Broadway Reservoir shopping strip and Station Street Lalor shopping strip.

Victoria’s Covid testing commander Jeroen Weimar on Tuesday warned that at least four of the state’s more than 50 locally transmitted cases had come from “fleeting” contact between Victorians.

“What we’re seeing now is people are brushing past each other in a small shop … This is stranger-to-stranger transmission,” he said.