GOLD Coast coronavirus testing clinics are so overstretched sick people are fainting in the heat, being turned away or giving up after waiting six hours or more, residents claim. Currumbin resident Virginia Boniface waited from about 9am-4.30pm to be tested at Robina Hospital in "searing heat" on Tuesday after interacting with Sydney travellers. She applauded staff who did their best in trying times, but said testing needed "fine tuning". "None of us knew it would be that long," she said. "There was a few who fainted, older people. "I am quite sunburnt, but it could have been a lot worse. There was a pharmacy nearby so we ended up with a litre of sunblock. I actually had an umbrella in the car and we bought some Gatorade because we were just so dehydrated.