Australians will not receive free rapid antigen tests after the national cabinet agreed to a raft of changes on Thursday afternoon including a narrowing in the definition of a close contact.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Thursday that a close contact would only be a household contact or household-like contact of a confirmed COVID-19 case. A household contact was someone who had spent more than four hours with an infected person in a house or accommodation setting, he said.
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Michael Read is the Financial Review's economics correspondent, reporting from the federal press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia and at UBS. Connect with Michael on Twitter. Email Michael at michael.read@afr.com
