Health
$300m US COVID testing coup not all it’s cracked up to be – Coffs Coast Advocate
A success story that will see homegrown COVID-19 testing kits exported to the US is worth $300 million. There’s just one problem.
It was cheers all around this week after news broke that Queensland success story Ellume had struck a deal with the Biden administration for $300 million worth of its COVID home testing kits.
“Ellume is another successful Queensland manufacturer rolling up its sleeves to fight the global pandemic and employing hundreds of Queenslanders to do so,” enthused State Development Minister Steven Miles.
Yet behind all the hearty backslapping and self-congratulatory pomp, there must have been a bit of teeth-grinding…
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