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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
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COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Testing

The Hon. C. BONAROS (14:53): Further supplementary: how many false positive tests or false negative tests were identified during that period that the minister referred to when those tests were used?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:53): I certainly will need to take it on notice but I might actually, with your indulgence, Mr President, just clarify the question so I am coming back with the right answer. Is the honourable member's question: since we have introduced rapid antigen testing for truck drivers, how many of those rapid antigen tests turned out to be wrong once we got the PCR result back?

The Hon. C. Bonaros: Yes.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: That wasn't bad, was it? I will certainly bring an answer back to the honourable member because I think it's a very interesting point. Let's put it this way, every time you have a false negative, that would have been the risk of an outbreak.

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