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Ellume has put its Australian wing into voluntary administration, 18 months after the company secured a $304 million US government contract to boost its COVID-19 test production capacity overseas.

Australians can claim RATs when they do their tax, and businesses will be excused from the fringe benefits tax as the tests emerge as a key battleground ahead of the federal election.

The ACCC says customers are still paying between $20 and $30 per test, despite the average wholesale price coming in somewhere between $3.82 and $11.42 per test.

Pharmacists are receiving four calls a minute about rapid antigen tests and working "around the clock" to source them, the peak body says.