'More than enough' capacity before government spent $200m on Andrew Forrest Covid-19 tests

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Pathology Technology Australia says there was a ‘complete lack of transparency’ and consultation by government before it bought tests from Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation

The federal government’s $200m purchase of Covid-19 testing kits from Andrew Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation caught the Australian diagnostics industry by surprise, lacked transparency and came after a detailed audit showed there was “more than enough technology already in the field”, the sector’s peak body has claimed.

 

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