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Genevieve Thorpe

COVID-19 apathy to blame for testing slump as symptoms rise

Apathy about testing for COVID-19 is why numbers have fallen, say experts, after the latest report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Head of the University of Melbourne’s school of health and science Bruce Thompson said the decline in testing was likely due to COVID ‘‘apathy’’.

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