The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests will now be reduced from R850 to R500 including VAT.
Image:South Africans will no longer be paying exorbitant prices for Covid-19 tests after an investigation into “unfairly inflated, exorbitant and, or unjustifiable” prices charged to consumers by private laboratories.The PCR tests detect genetic material from a specific organism, such as a virus, and are now the standard proof for travel and other purposes.
On October 8, the commission received a formal complaint from the Council for Medical Schemes against private pathology laboratories alleging that the price for supplying PCR tests for Covid-19 are “unfairly inflated, exorbitant and, or unjustifiable”.
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