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Health Minister Martin Foley said Victoria had secured an order of 34 million rapid antigen tests to support the changing response to the pandemic.In a jab at the Morrison government, the health minister said the state government was working now on how to roll these tests out more broadly. 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.
Sutton rocks
Let’s mandate for no more mandates.
Yeah AND how about getting rid of the mandates so we can All go back to work ?
There's A Catch!
False negatives don’t seem to be a problem in a pandemic😎
First in Australia 💪
Victoria leading again
Excellent.
At least someone has shown some sort of leadership at last
Pointless VictorianCHO UNLESS I CAN BLOODY USE IT TO GET BACK TO WORK!!! 😡😡 mandates
As it should be.
Nothings for free Tax payers pay for it.
Where the hell is Morrison on this? Where is his leadership? Why is the Herald Sun not putting pressure on the Morrison Government? This is when the Herald Sun gets exposed for its biase and a Royal Commission in Media ownership is very badly needed!
Anything Covid19 related should be free. The government has screwed us over enough.
That’s a great photo. Who ever does the selection should be commended. 🙏
Your tweet makes me think 'thank God we have a competent government doing the work to secure our health while the federal government is asleep at the wheel as usual' but you have to throw in a stupid picture of someone who wasn't even at the press conference because? You tell me.
Thanks Brett ❤️❤️❤️