Business groups are also urging Prime Minister Scott Morrison to let them help fight COVID-19 by making it easier for them to vaccinate staff and customers who volunteer for the jabs, so companies can supplement the work of GPs, pharmacies and state hubs.While the big supermarket chains are negotiating deals to vaccinate staff, and banks could launch pilot schemes this week to do the same, company director Tony Shepherd and others said all governments had to put greater urgency into the effort.ANOTHER PERSPECTIVEOpinionCoronavirus pandemicBlame the lockdown on business urgers trying to wish the virus awayRoss GittinsEconomics Editor “We are in the middle of our biggest emergency since the Second World War and we need to make sure that all the resources of Australia are brought to bear to meet the crisis,” said Mr Shepherd, a director of Virgin Australia and Snowy Hydro.He said political leaders should mobilise business to help with vaccinations and rapid antigen tests, which could supplement but not replace the more reliable polymerase chain reaction tests (PCR) used at government centres.“If you have inadequate supply of vaccines, then the only thing you can do in the short term is better testing — and the rapid antigen testing has been used overseas now for months successfully,” he said.With the Delta strain spreading quickly at workplaces, such as a KFC in south-western Sydney where a dozen staff were infected, employers want access to rapid tests like those distributed freely in the United Kingdom and other countries.Big employers are pleading with the nation’s political leaders to take urgent action to protect millions of workers and customers amid growing fears that they cannot get enough testing kits and vaccines to help fight the Delta strain.Company chiefs are venting their frustration over federal and state rules that prevent them from using rapid antigen tests across their workplaces to help track and trace the deadly coronavirus
variant.https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/use-all-options-employer-frustration-over-vaccination-testing-20210808-p58gv5.html
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