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Senator defends receiving private COVID test in her office – Chronicle
A Liberal senator has defended getting a private coronavirus test administered in her office instead of attending a COVID clinic.
In a week when Sydney residents were queuing in cars for five hours for a COVID test, a NSW senator secured a private test in her office.
Senator Hollie Hughes, who was filmed by a staffer taking the test administered by Laverty Pathology, said in the video she was suffering from a cold and the sniffles.
Public health guidelines ask Australians to stay home if they are feeling unwell and get tested at a COVID-19 testing clinic.
Quizzed on why she had received a private test, a spokeswoman sai…
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