GPs say they’re still being forced to source rapid antigen tests in the price-inflated private market, with virtually no State or Federal Government supply to general practice.

It comes as the ACCC says it has received 4000 complaints in a month about the cost of home-testing kits for COVID-19, with 34% of them from people buying them from pharmacies.

In a report on Tuesday, the watchdog found consumers were paying an average of $24 a test between Christmas Day and the end of January, while some had been charged up to $100.

The average price charged by pharmacies was $21 per test, significantly higher than the $3.70 to $11.40 cost at wholesale, the watchdog said, adding that retailers who had told customers prices were high because of inflated wholesale were not telling the truth.