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50,000 Australians a day are being tested for COVID-19. How to solve the maths that says the number should be 6.5 million

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
50,000 Australians a day are being tested for COVID-19. How to solve the maths that says the number should be 6.5 million

As Victoria grapples with a second-wave outbreak of COVID-19, the importance of large-scale testing has again been highlighted.

Without its “testing blitz” aiming at 10,000 tests a day, the extent of the outbreak would have been invisible for much longer.


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