Health
Time to plug the gaps in our COVID-19 testing – Sydney Morning Herald
Quarantine hotels and incoming flight crew are the weakest links in our defences against COVID-19. But new rapid antigen testing could add a layer of certainty…
Now is the time for federal and state health authorities to include rapid antigen “point of care” testing, which takes 15 minutes to perform, on all staff at the end of their work shift. We need to send staff home with a high degree of certainty that they are really negative.
These tests have a high level of accuracy for identifying those who truly are negative for COVID-19 with total accuracy of about 98 per cent. Daily rapid antigen testing of quarantine hotel staff and airport staff (with close…
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