Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Mar 2020
Mass shipment of testing kits arrives as government pleads for supplies
17 March 2020 - The first shipment among 100,000 new coronavirus testing kits were due to arrive in Australia on Tuesday night, alleviating a nationwide shortage that caused health authorities to issue strict guidelines on who was eligible for testing.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration fast-tracked onto the market the tests, which are able to turn around results in three hours and free up resources in Australia's overloaded pathology laboratories.
Unlike the existing tests, the kits arrived from the United States ready to go and do not have to be assembled in the laboratory.
