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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Jasper Lindell

ACT Health expects to miss 40% of new COVID-19 cases

ACT Health said its modelling suggested 40 per cent of new COVID cases would not be confirmed by tests. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

About 40 per cent of future COVID-19 cases in the ACT will go unconfirmed by tests for the virus, health authorities said, before the territory embarks on the most relaxed isolation requirements since the pandemic began.

ACT Health also has no plans to run a sero-survey to determine how prevalent COVID-19 antibodies are in the territory's population, and said it had not modelled the attack rate of the virus, which is the percentage of the population that had been exposed.

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