New South Wales has recorded 97 Covid-19 cases overnight as Sydney's lockdown was extended by another two weeks to stem the spread of the highly-contagious Delta variant of the virus.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said 24 of those infections were out in the community while contagious.
She said Greater Sydney's lockdown would be extended until 11.59m July 30.
The announcement comes as thousands of Sydney residents queued for up to eight hours on Wednesday morning to get a coronavirus test following an order from the New South Wales government.
Residents in the Fairfield local government area in Sydney's south-west who work outside the region must now get tested every three days in a desperate effort to curb the city's Covid-19 horror outbreak.
There were astonishing scenes at a 24-hour testing centre at Fairfield Showground as the queue of locals stretched for kilometres along Smithfield Road at 6am Wednesday, sparking traffic chaos.
Many locals slept in their cars as they queued to be tested overnight while residents who live in the area complained about being unable to drive out of their street due to the traffic bedlam.
There were also reports of police turning locals away at the drive-through clinic late Tuesday night with just two health workers conducting tests.
Pictured a masked pedestrian walks through Kings Cross in Sydney's inner-city on July 13
Health workers speak to members of the public at a pop-up COVID-19 testing clinic at the Fairfield Showgrounds in Sydney on Wednesday. Residents were waiting up to eight hours in the queue at the Fairfield Showground drive-through testing clinic on Wednesday morning
Surfers move along the Bondi Beach boardwalk in Sydney's east with their boards in hand on July 14
It was a far different story in Sydney's east on Wednesday morning, where only a trickle of cars were waiting in line at a drive-through clinic at Heffron Park in Maroubra.
The long queues across Fairfield are expected to continue through the day, despite workers leaving the LGA having another three days to get their first swab.
Local Wayne joined the queue at Fairfield Showground at 1am and gave up three hours later because he had to rush to work.
'The guy told me there was still a four-hour wait at that hour,' he told 2GB breakfast host Ben Fordham.
Another frustrated local who queued up to be tested on his way to work told the Today Show at 7am he'd be in the line for three hours already.
Two pedestrians walk along the Bondi Beach boardwalk on Wednesday. Lockdown restrictions are in place across Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Wollongong
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Fairfield mayor Frank Carbone described the scenes as chaos as he slammed the new rules announced by the NSW government a day earlier.
'These are people that want to get tested, these are doctors and nurses, people that help our community, they work far and wide and these are essential workers,' Mr Carbone told the Today show on Wednesday.
'I think that the plan to get the mandated plan where people need to get tested two times a week, once every three days, was very badly thought out.
'We need more testing clinics, we need more vaccines. The government needs to listen to news the community. People can't get out of their
