The NSW Education Minister says they have started deploying hundreds of thousands of rapid antigen tests to schools across the state.

The NSW government is planning to deliver rapid antigen tests to the state’s public, Catholic and private from the first week of term one.

Sarah Mitchell told Ben Fordham it will help keep schools safe.

“We will be providing information to our principals about how we want them to be distributed and to be used.”

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