Chief medical officer Brendan Murphy says there have been over 10,000 coronavirus tests done in Australia, all of them in government-run labs. He says private labs may soon be brought in to help.
Health authorities have been examining ways to scale up the capacity to provide testing for the coronavirus to ensure rapid tests are available across the country if needed.Chief Medical Officer Professor Brendan Murphy says there are now plans to"scale up" testing capabilities around the countryCommonwealth chief medical officer Brendan Murphy told 7.30 authorities were looking at ways of expanding the availability of the test to private laboratories.
"At the moment, because this is a new test — it's only just been really set up — we set them up in the public health laboratories," he said. "These are government-run laboratories in every state and territory and they established the test. We didn't want them being done in a lot of private labs initially, because we wanted to make sure the tests were working well [and were] in our hands.
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