FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FUNDING

AUSTRALIANGOVERNMENT FUNDING

Anopen letter to all federal, state and local members,

The Federal, State and Local Government MUST fund rapid testing scale up NOW or be left behind

Ifwe commence the process of scale up now building facilities to manufacture,produce and export rapid tests we will be ready for reopening travel later thisyear or early next year once everyone who wishes to be vaccinated has had theirchance

Vaccinationis unlikely to stop a virus that is mutating and running rampant in many partsof the globe.

Continuethe vaccine efforts and this amazing Aussie disease prevention and suppression successstory BUT commence rapid testing program scale up NOW

Wehave one if not the top antigen rapid tests for Covid 19 right here in AustraliaANTEOTECH

Thecost of remaining on the same pattern of lock down, reopening, closing borders is astronomicalto the budget and peoples mental and physical wellbeing and health.

Evenonce vaccination program has completed we will need an international arrival testingprotocol

Asan example to bring back 150,000 travelers per day with small quarantine periodwould cost around $84 per traveler plus quarantine costs for hotspot areas.

Havea traffic light type system for affected countries so green home quarantine and home testing, yellow government quarantine for 5 days and testing,red no travel.

Thiswould allow for testing each traveler as follows-

Twiceon transit- at departure at arrival

Twicein a 4-5 day quarantine day two and four/five (or for green zones that don’t requirequarantine twice at home testing on app)

Twicefollow up remote home antigen test day 6 and 8 once leaving quarantine linked to a tracking app viasmart phone (If these don’t get submitted commence test and trace follow up.)

So 6tests in total per passenger and require 900,000 tests per day or 27M a month

Totalcost per day at $14 per test is $12.6M a day or $4.5B per year

Thissound like a lot of money but could cost the taxpayer as little as a $500Minitial outlay

Here’show it could work

Federal,state and local government fund the program to scale up manufacturing to thetune of $500M with goal of producing 45M tests per month or 540M per year

Commencethis NOW so construction and procurement can begin

Bythe time vaccination program is complete the facilities will already be runningto mass produce and eventually grow to produce many more tests to increasecapacity. Quarantine facilities outside of cities such as Wellcamp Qld and Avalon Melbourne, Howard Springs NT could be made ready to cope with the volume increase.

Builda national stockpile of 150M tests initially this would take around 3 months once manufacturing plant is complete. This could be used for hotspot outbreaks on a big scale and swiftly.

Oncestockpile is achieved and protocols are in place reopen travel with 150,000passengers per day initially.

Nowthe cost of the testing, quarantine and community risk is to be 100% offset and paidfor by international arrivals.

Givenwe are a safe, democratic, COVID free society it would be reasonable to assumepeople will wish to travel, study and migrate here.

Havea border levy of around $150.00 per arrival paid through customs at check in.

Thiswould raise $22.5M per day which would cover the $12.6M needed for testing and leave$10M per day or $3.65B per year to fund other testing programs

Thiswould assist and offset/subsidies costs for further scale up of test production for testing at large events, concerts,remote cultural and indigenous locations, hotspot breakouts, hospitals and government/militaryfacilities, quarantine programs etc

Letsface it the only way this virus will get here is through human movement andtravel so if someone wishes to visit and expose our society to the risk thenthey can pay for the containment.

Totalcost to Government now $500M tax payer dollars the NET gain is astronomical.

Thiswill setup a new high growth industry and we have some of the worlds bestscience right here to grow it into the future.

Createsjobs in construction, Automation companies , Tech companies, Manufacturingcompanies, Robotic companies, Battery companies, Processor companies, Lightcompanies, transport and logistics companies.

Allprosper and a high end manufacturing age is born

Endresult produce minimum 45M tests per month

Utilize these tests with airport scenario and quarantine use so around 1M per day initially and stockpile afurther 500K per day until stockpile reaches 200M.

Bythen scale up will be growing rapidly and more tests can be produced.

Sellor give (through relief efforts) the remaining surplus tests to other countriesto utilize in the same way.

Oncestockpile of 200M tests is produced there would be surplus of 3.5M tests a weekfor community testing, export, reopening for larger numbers of travelers.

The resultan industry and high end manufacturing capability which could then bereplicated on a bigger scale in other sectors

Askilled workforce with more tax revenue created, a new export industry, travel, arts and tourism benefits, foreign students could come back to universities, immigration could reopen.

Selltourism to our country as the worlds premium Covid free destination

If 150,000 arrivals and every international passenger spends just $1500 during their stay (likely muchhigher) then further $225M per day is sent into the economy

Over365 days would make return $82.15B to economic activity we are currently missingout on (likely much higher)

Multiplexfor flu and eventually open up the program to test for other infectious diseasessuch as HIV, TB, Ebola and any future viruses and reduce risk of all thesewhile your at it.

Fundthis now and let’s get building in 6-12months when anyone that’s wanting thevaccine will have had the opportunity and the facilities would be ready toproduce and we can reopen for business

Testing150,000 travelers with a test as sensitive as EuGeni by ANTEOTECH 97.3% verified by VIDRL using stored samples with VTM interference would produce thefollowing risk-

Letsuse worst case 20% of the travelers are infectious at time of flying so 30,000people

Testis 97.3% accurate so 810 infectious passengers may be missed at check in beforeboarding

On arrivalthey are tested again so 97.3% accuracy would leave 22 possibly infectious

Onday 2 quarantine and 97.3% accuracy there would be less then 1 possible case

By day4-6 if anyone pre symptomatic was missed they would now be picked up in Quarantine or home testing but givenhow low this tests Lower limit of detection is based it will likely be earlier.

Thatis based on 20% of travelers being infectious true numbers as we can see fromcurrent hotel program debacle is less than this.

Thiscreates an industry, keeps community safe, brings back travel and tourism andif program is working increase numbers and production will naturally increaseas test makers increase capacity.

Couldthen export tests for use in hotspot zones around the world such as our neighbors in PNG and Indonesia and the pacific islands so they can start uptourism again as well.

THISIS A NO BRAINER COVID is not going away anytime soon and once we havepopulation that wishes to vaccinate vaccinated then we need to get travel andmovement back online ASAP.