[Giblets]

Originally Posted by Nich

at home testing has been available for more than a year and Australia (NZ too) have banned them at a time when we needed them. They’ve changed their tune in Aus and they will be available next month.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/o...sts-covid.html

The rapid tests are appropriate for suppression but not for elimination. I'm living in Germany atm and for a period it was required to have a 'schnelltest' to do certain things like go to certain shops or the hairdresser, this still required the test to be done by a third party though so not at home.

Now that NZ is dropping the elimination strategy I expect you'll start to see them.

Also they were ~5euro here initially and only recently dropped to the 1eur range, so testing a family of four before visiting my in-laws got expensive!