Australia ramps up coronavirus testing to include anyone with respiratory symptoms
Australia is planning to significantly boost its coronavirus testing regime to include anyone with acute respiratory symptoms.
Following a national cabinet meeting on Friday, Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy announced all states and territories would expand their testing criteria to ensure any community transmission was being picked up.
"Anyone with acute respiratory symptoms - cough, sore throat, runny nose, cold symptoms, flu-like symptoms - can get tested," he said.
“We’re pretty confident that most of them will be negative, but this will give us a really broad reach of what we call passive surveillance.”
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