The Hon. Rauff Hakeem, Attorney-at-Law
Rauff Hakeem asked the Minister of Health and Mass Media to provide detailed information on COVID-19 Rapid Antigen and PCR testing in Sri Lanka from 2019 to 2022. He sought separate figures for tests conducted by the government and private sector, the NMRA-registered local agents for each test, and the government’s unit and total costs for those tests.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 TESTS PERFORMED FOR COVID-19 FROM 2019-2022: DETAILS
¶ 02 130/2024
¶ 03 9. The Hon. Rauff Hakeem asked the Minister of Health and Mass Media:
¶ 04 (a) Will he inform this House, separately, the— (i) total number of Rapid Antigen Tests and Polymerase Chain Reaction – PCR – Tests for COVID-19 performed by the Government and the private sector in Sri Lanka from 2019 to 2022; and (ii) names of the registered local agents for each of the aforesaid tests with the National Medicines Regulatory Authority – NMRA;
¶ 05 (b) Will he also inform this House, separately, the— (i) unit cost incurred by the Government for the Rapid Antigen Tests and PCR Tests mentioned in (a)(i) above; and (ii) total cost for the above tests incurred by the Government?
¶ 06 (c) If not, why?
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