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Health
Andrew Brown and Tim Dornin

Access tightened for free COVID PCR tests

Under a new national management plan for 2023, Australia will move away from 'COVID exceptionalism'. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Patients will need a referral in order to get a free COVID PCR test from next year, under sweeping changes to how the country manages the virus.

Under a new national management plan for 2023, the government is set to move away from "COVID exceptionalism".

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