Pensioners and other concession card holders will be given free rapid antigen tests until the end of October. 9News
rapid antigen tests in NSW under a state government program to run until the end of October.
Concession card holders were previously able to get 10 free RATs from pharmacies under a Federal Government program, however this ended on July 31.A health worker shows a positive 'SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen' test just after collecting a nose swab sample for a polymerase chain reaction at the coronavirus testing facility of Unisante, the university center for general medicine and public health, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020.
"This builds upon our earlier commitment to pick up the Federal Government's Concessional Access Program, which it dropped at the end of last month," Coure said. Dominello said COVID-19 still posed a significant risk, despite the end of winter approaching and the number of infections easing.
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