Concern over requirement for businesses to supply RATs to keep exempt employees on the job

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January 13 2022 - 8:30pm
ESSENTIAL: Committee for Ballarat chief executive Michael Poulton says government needs to supply rapid antigen tests to keep exempt critical employees at work, not individual businesses.
ESSENTIAL: Committee for Ballarat chief executive Michael Poulton says government needs to supply rapid antigen tests to keep exempt critical employees at work, not individual businesses.

Emergency service workers, teachers, truck drivers and other workers in critical industries will be allowed to work even when considered a close contact of a positive COVID case under changes to isolation requirements to come in to effect next week.

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Michelle Smith

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