Experts say Australia should have a national approach to reporting negative and positive rapid COVID-19 tests.
NSW’s reproductive rate is at 1.19 as of Tuesday having hit 2.14 on New Year’s Day. Likewise Victoria’s is at 1.69, down from 2.42 last week.
“At the moment, if you just took the numbers [of cases] being reported then it looks like everything’s coming down.” NSW authorities are expected to launch a way to record rapid test results through the Service NSW app later this week. Instead, a Department of Health and Human Services Victoria spokesman said modelling was only “one part” of the large amounts of information authorities used to determine a response to the virus.
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