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2.43am BST
NSW chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant, has been asked if the state will consider ramping up at home testing capacity.
We have got an array of testing options. We have been working with our GPs to encourage messaging to their patient groups about ringing first before they come in, making sure that people are assessed and do video or telehealth consults and then arrange appropriate testing.
There is a range of drive through and access to testing in that Fairfield local Government area is extensive. We are doing more. Every day we have opened additional sites in conjunction with the private sector to make sure that there is no barrier to testing in that area.
No home testing though?
There are home testing available. But if you are wanting to look at large numbers and ease, it is about giving people a variety of testing options and we would like to keep any home testing for the most vulnerable, people that are bed-bound, people that actually can’t get out.
Those people who are happy to access driving through, that is very popular in the area. But there are a range of testing options and I would urge everyone to go to the web site and look at that. We have established some new testing options for the community.
2.41am BST
Here are some updates from the Victorian presser which is also going on right now.
The Victorian press conference is starting now with deputy CHO, Assoc. Prof. Daniel O’Brien. I’ll bring the updates to the @GuardianAus blog.
O’Brien says health authorities checked 269 addresses where people from red zones (read: NSW) are supposed to be isolating. Two were “deliberately not isolating” and have been referred to police. @MatildaBoseley
Jeroen Weimar says contact tracing teams in Vic have made “swift progress over the last 24 hours over these two separate potential chains of transmission in Victoria.”
There are 13 primary household contacts – all tested negative.
Over 300 other close contacts.
