NSW joins Victoria in scrapping mandatory reporting for positive Covid tests

The NSW chief health officer, Dr Kerry Chant, urged residents to keep reporting positive Covid results to the government. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

New South Wales has joined Victoria and scrapped mandatory reporting of a positive Covid rapid antigen test (RAT) as the state continues to roll back pandemic measures.

But the NSW chief health officer, Dr Kerry Chant, urged people to keep reporting positive results to the government anyway.