Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has rebuffed growing calls to make rapid antigen tests free for everyone, despite shortages of the tests. As COVID-19 cases linked to the Omicron variant explode across the country, state and territory testing clinics have come under increasing pressure, leading to a growing push for rapid antigen tests. While chemists and other stores have reported large shortages of the tests, the prime minister said Australia would not make the tests free for everyone. “We’re now in a stage of the pandemic where you can’t just go around making everything free,” he told the Seven Network on Monday. “When someone tells you they want to make something free, someone’s always going to pay for it, and it’s going to be you.” Meanwhile, Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has blamed the rapid antigen test shortages on people panic buying. “The sooner people stop buying them to keep …