Health department 'has no idea why the test for Covid-19 still costs R850'

He said the department has also laid a complaint and asked the commission to investigate prices.

While some laboratories have reduced their price, they still remain high. The three main private services listed on the department website as laboratories offering SARS-COV-2 RT-PCR, generally referred to as the Covid-19 PCR test, are Ampath, Lancet and Pathcare. Tests at a public health facility are free of charge, and carried out by the National Health Laboratory Service , the largest diagnostic pathology service in SA.

The NICD report released on Thursday night shows 55.5% of the 51,402 tests conducted the previous day were done in private laboratories. And of the total number of tests carried out since the start of the pandemic — 19,580,433 — 46.3% were done in public healthcare.

so who's making all these numbers? the rich? people on medical aid? cos I know for a fact in the hood ain't nobody taking time to go test for free, yet alone spend R850...ain't nobody there even living in a pandemic!

Its 350 by us

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