Essential workers such as tradies, supermarket employees and students returning to schools may have to undertake a rapid COVID-19 test to prove they don't have the virus before going to work.
Federal and state governments have come under pressure to introduce rapid testing where results are delivered within minutes of being swabbed.
There are calls for rapid testing to be implemented in businesses across the country. Picture: Ezra Acayan/Getty Images "We should deploy rapid antigen tests to get people back to work on construction sites ... before they actually get to work, audited, not at home, but audited," he told the ABC. But he said it depended on"the probability that a population or community or person has the disease".
“The issue is where the epidemic is in your particular location and what the best value tests are and at the moment, for diagnosis, PCR tests are tried and proven.
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