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The new Australian recommendations will likely be presented to National Cabinet in 2022, Nine Newspapers reports. Victoria’s chief health officer Brett Sutton is “kindly” asking travellers heading interstate to get swabbed in the afternoon as the state’s overwhelmed testing system struggles to keep up with demand.
The state’s besieged testing system has been thrown into further disarray, with a device that processes PCR tests having broken down. While South Australia has dumped its requirement for interstate travellers to have returned a negative PCR test, Tasmania and Queensland have so far refused.Acting Premier Jacinta Allan said the system had been put under “immense pressure”, with 362,000 tests processed over the five-day Christmas period.
It comes amid a push from healthcare and business figures for the state to roll out rapid tests in wider settings to cut down the time people were forced to spend in isolation.
Meanwhile the Perrottet-Morrison 'let it rip' policy is getting interesting with 11,201 cases in NSW today. The hospital system is becoming messy.