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

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:22): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking a question of the Minister for Health and Wellbeing regarding health.

Leave granted.

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN: On Friday last week, two exposure sites were listed in Kingston South-East. On Tuesday this week, six exposure sites were listed in Robe. Despite this, the government has not established semipermanent testing sites in either Kingston or Robe. The closest testing available is an hour's drive away in Millicent. It took until Wednesday afternoon for a pop-up testing site to be made available in Robe and even then it was only open yesterday for two hours. Last week, the Premier told the public:

…we've got adequate SA Pathology capacity and also making sure we've got that overall testing capacity and availability right across the state.

My question to the minister is: why has there been no permanent or semipermanent testing site in the District Council of Robe or the Kingston District Council?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:23): It's certainly the responsibility of SA Pathology to deploy its testing resources in a way which can be distributed as required with outbreaks. In terms of the two LGAs, out of numerous LGAs right across the state, I suspect there will be a number of LGAs that—

The Hon. C.M. Scriven: Which are exposure sites?

The Hon. S.G. WADE: Excuse me.

The Hon. C.M. Scriven: They are exposure sites.

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. S.G. WADE: I am sorry, if she doesn't want the answer—

The PRESIDENT: The deputy leader asked a question; listen to the answer.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: Thanks.

The PRESIDENT: No? You have concluded?

The Hon. S.G. WADE: Yes.

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