Insane moment a furious man at a Covid-19 testing clinic LEAPS onto a woman's bonnet after she cut in line as queues stretched for hours - only for her to drive into him
A furious Queenslander at a Covid-testing clinic has been captured leaping onto a woman's bonnet after she cut in line with tensions rising as Cairns and Yarrabah enters its first day of a three-day snap lockdown.
Thousands of motorists in the Cairns area were seen flocking to get tested at a drive-through centre on Monday as the state recorded four new cases of Covid-19.
One Queenslander's patience was captured wearing thin after a woman cut in front of him in a line that stretched back for several kilometres.
The frustrated resident is seen throwing himself onto the bonnet of the pushy motorist and bouncing up and down - but the motorist happily kept inching forwards
The frustrated resident is seen throwing himself onto the bonnet of the pushy motorist's car and bouncing up and down, before she decided to take him for a spin.
As the vehicle flies forward the man slides back onto the road and begins to angrily gesture at the woman through the driver-side window.
The tense scene comes after an essential employee working at a drive-through testing centre in the NSW Hunter region was spat at by an abusive customer.
Police are appealing for information after the testing clinic employee was abused by a local who became aggressive when he was told the centre in the Hunter region was closing at about 3pm on Saturday.
Police said he spat at the employee, narrowly missing him, at the clinic on Blomfield Street, in Maitland, before fleeing in a white vehicle towards Wallace Street.
The man is described as Caucasian appearance and without his two front teeth.
Thousands of motorists in the Cairns area were seen flocking to get tested at a drive-through clinic on Monday as the state recorded four new cases of Covid-19
Residents in Cairns and Yarrabah (pictured at a testing centre on Monday) will remain in lockdown until Wednesday, 4pm, after it was discovered an unvaccinated taxi driver had been infectious in the community for ten days
Meanwhile, residents in the Cairns area will remain in lockdown until Wednesday, 4pm, after it was discovered an unvaccinated taxi driver had been infectious in the Cairns community for 10 days.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the new case in Cairns was linked to the reef pilot who tested positive in Cairns last week.
'The marine pilot actually travelled in that person's taxi,' she said.
'A lot of contact tracing is now happening, of course, with those exposure sites but it is great to know that linkage has been done.'
Chief health officer Jeannette Young said it appeared the taxi driver drove the marine pilot from his home to the airport while the latter was infectious.
The four new community cases were linked to the original Indooroopilly cluster and were all in-home quarantine during their infectious period.
One is a staff member at the Ironside State school, another is a parent of a child attending that school and a third is a household contact of a student at Ironside.
A fourth case is a household contact of a Brisbane Boys' Grammar School student.
A further case was detected in hotel quarantine.
'We are absolutely concerned about what is happening in New South Wales,' Ms Palaszczuk said in reference to Sydney's ever-developing outbreak of the contagious Delta variant
A positive case on the Gold Coast reported over the weekend remained under investigation, with an exposure site named as Woolworths at Mudgeeraba.
Meanwhile the Queensland Premier has warned if necessary, the state may 'go harder' on border restrictions with New South Wales.
In response to comments by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian that restrictions in her state may be eased as vaccination rates increased, Ms Palaszczuk warned Queensland would remain resolute.
'We are absolutely concerned about what is happening in New South Wales,' she said.
'The further north the virus travels is alarming for us so we'll be watching that incredibly carefully.'
'We already have those border patrols and those border controls in place at present. But if we have to go harder, we will.'
The four new community cases recorded on Monday were linked to the original Indooroopilly cluster and were all in-home quarantine during their infectious period (pictured, testing in Cairns on Monday)
One is a staff member at the Ironside State school, another is a parent of a child attending that school and a third is a household contact of a student at Ironside. A fourth case is a household contact of a Brisbane Boys' Grammar School student (pictured, testing in Cairns on Monday)
Dr Young said she hoped three days in lockdown for Cairns and Yarrabah would be enough to evaluate the risk of infections spreading.
'We all know that once the virus has got out, we can't put it back. So we've got to go really early,' Dr Young said on Sunday.
A number of exposure sites were announced in Cairns on Sunday afternoon, including Brothers Leagues Club, Cairns 24-Hour Medical Centre on Grafton St and a OML pathology at Cairns Day Surgery.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she had faith in the Cairns community to follow the rules.
'I need you to stay at home, minimise your movements, let's test, test and test as much as we possibly can, and then we can evaluate that over the next three days to see if there are any more cases out there,' the premier said.
LATEST CAIRNS EXPOSURE SITES
The locations listed below are close contact exposure sites:
Raintrees Shopping Centre - Cnr Alfred & Koch Streets Manunda, Raintrees Tavern: 1.55pm - 4.30pm, Tuesday, August 3, 3.30pm - 4.30pm, Thursday, August 5; Woolworths Raintrees, 2.30pm - 3.30pm, Wednesday, August 4
Café China on Mulgrave Road, 79 Mulgrave Road, Parramatta Park, 11.40am - 12.40pm, Thursday, August 5
Brothers Leagues Club - Gaming Lounge, 99-107 Anderson Street, Manunda 3pm - 5pm, Thursday, August 5
The Cairns 24 Hour Medical Centre - Waiting Room, 156 Grafton Street (Cnr Florence & Grafton Streets) Cairns City, 3pm - 4.15pm, Friday, August 6
QML Pathology, Cairns Day Surgery (Cnr Florence & Grafton Streets), Cairns City - 4.15pm 5.30pm, Friday, August 6