Failing to report a positive RAT on the Service NSW app carried a penalty of $1000 in NSW.
The announcement follows a decision by national cabinet toend mandatory isolation for positive cases from Friday. Victoria has also dropped mandatory RAT reporting requirements.
But NSW’s Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant asked people to continue to report positive results.
“Registering a positive RAT through Service NSW allows us to connect people to medical care,particularly older people and the immunocompromised,and it also helps inform our ongoing public health response,” Chant said.
A spokesperson for Service NSW said people would still be able to register positive RATs when isolation ends.
Chant urged people to stay home if they had cold or flu symptoms,get tested,and wear a mask if they had to leave their home.
“If you have COVID-19 you may be infectious for up to 10 days,but you are most infectious in the two days before your symptoms start and while you have symptoms,” Chant said. “We all know from experience what works best to protect one another from COVID-19 so please,continue to take those simple but important steps,” she said.