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Collected Item: “The Bondi COVID-19 Testing Centre”

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The Bondi COVID-19 Testing Centre

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Photographs, Bondi Beach

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To accomodate the huge numbers of people needing COVID-19 tests, a screening clinic was erected in the Bondi Beach carpark. The first time I saw it, I didn’t really know what to think. Of course I was pleased, and proud, that Sydney was creating free and open spaces to test as many people for COVID-19 as possible. But seeing the clinic in Bondi, against the sunny beach, felt surreal. Even after months of living with the pandemic there’s still something indescribably strange about such a familiar place having to adapt to COVID-19.

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A McCormack

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2020-11
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