Pharmacies and retailers in many parts of Australia are either running out of or running low on RAT kits.
Source:The founder of Suretest, a supplier of rapid antigen test kits in Australia, Dr Lewis is sitting on a supply of about 75,000 kits in his warehouse in Melbourne’s inner suburb of Malvern.
“Earlier this week, we had around three million rapid antigen test kits in our warehouse in Sydney and we have been getting deliveries of approximately 100,000 every single day since,” Allison Rossiter, the managing director of Roche Diagnostics Australia, another major RAT supplier, told SBS News.
“To prevent outages – whether it’s vaccines, whether it’s testing kits, whether it’s the antiviral treatments – we need to be given notice of change in public policy.”
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