Spain to limit high retail price of Covid home-testing kits

Antigen tests currently cost as much as €10 in Spain.

Spain’s government is working on rules to limit the retail price of antigen tests for Covid-19, the country’s prime minister Pedro Sanchez has said, after shortages were reported in many pharmacies across the country last month.

Price rises during the surge in Omicron cases and the scarcity of tests in pharmacies have raised protests from opposition politicians and consumer groups in Spain, many of whom are calling for tests to be sold in supermarkets.