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  <date date="2020-03-24" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Coronavirus</name>
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        <heading>Coronavirus</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2020-03-24">
            <name>Coronavirus</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:52):</by> A supplementary arising from the original answer: has the minister received any advice or any briefings on when South Australia's current stock of the reagent may be fully depleted?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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          <question date="2020-03-24">
            <name>Coronavirus</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-03-24T14:52:55" />
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:52):</by>  I have regular conversations with SA Pathology. In terms of the capacity to meet the challenges, the fact that the Chief Public Health Officer expanded the criteria to include interstate travel demonstrates that SA Pathology and the stocks are meeting our foreseeable needs. I certainly have regular conversations with the clinical director of SA Pathology, Dr Tom Dodd, about issues such as reagents. Funnily enough, one of those was this morning.</text>
        <text id="20200324ee2dec1698f44fd780000140">Certainly, there will be challenges. I have said that in this house before. There will be challenges on things like reagents, there will be challenges on things like PPE, but the work being done by leading clinicians like Dr Tom Dodd, who I have huge confidence in, I believe will mean that South Australia will continue to meet the challenges of COVID-19.</text>
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