As the number of private clinics offering coronavirus testing to the wealthy in the United States and United Kingdom soar, SBS News asks health experts how testing works here in Australia.
Testing for COVID-19 has been widely available throughout Australia and the country hasn’t seen a repeat of the situation in the United States and the United Kingdom, where wealthy individuals have had greater access to testing kits.
Drive-through testing clinics - where patients stay in their cars - are also available in some locations. You have been in close contact with a confirmed COVID-19 case in the past 14 days and you develop respiratory illness with or without feverYou are a healthcare worker who works directly with patients and you have a respiratory illness and a fever One London health clinic has been widely criticised in recent days for charging patients £375 for a COVID-19 test.
“Most of the delay has been transport. Pathology has worked hard to get tests close to people because that’s the delay. It shouldn’t take more than two days unless there is significant travel involved,” he said.
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