RAT access scheme to end today

The Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) access scheme, run by the Health Bureau, will end today. The bureau justified its decision by disclosing that, in the past two rounds of the scheme, only 200 people collected RAT kits. It also cited the increasing availability of kits across the city. The government began the access scheme last December when it was considering reclassifying the disease as endemic in Macau. At the time there were growing difficulties with accessing the kits.