Australia has seen another day of rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations amid fears that changes to testing requirements could mask the full scale of the outbreak. The country reported 72,000 cases nationwide.
“Case numbers are less of an issue,” Morrison said. “It is connecting to care that is the issue, and the Commonwealth provides telehealth support to people to be able to do that and get advice on how they can manage their infection at home and, should matters escalate, to seek further assistance.”
Because most rapid antigen tests are carried out at home, experts fear the new policy will lead to an underreporting of cases. They say an accurate picture of case numbers is necessary to ensure the preparedness of hospitals and other medical facilities. “The horse has bolted, this is the biggest policy failure so far in Australia,” Blakely told Australian broadcaster Seven Network. “We also haven’t thought about how you can load up that data to the surveillance system, so we won’t get that in place in the next couple of weeks.”
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