Deputy Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly flags another expansion of Australia's coronavirus testing regime.
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly has flagged another expansion of Australia's coronavirus testing regime, to include places and people who are seemingly virus-free.
Professor Kelly said Australia had now carried out more than 400,000 tests but said it was now time to actively go into the community to find more cases."Which might be doing laboratory testing in places where we don't know there are cases to see if there, indeed, are some," he said.
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