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‘Herculean efforts’ by lab staff to meet COVID-19 testing demands
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‘Herculean efforts’ by lab staff to meet COVID-19 testing demands
Wednesday 26 August 2020, 10:07 AM

The Labtests laboratory in Mount Wellington is responsible for processing COVID-19 swabs collected from GP clinics in the Auckland and Northland regions
Since four new community cases were confirmed in Auckland on 11 August, Labtests has been inundated with COVID-19 tests. General manager Chris Davey, medical director Gary McAuliffe and Susan Smith, head of department of microbiology and molecular talk to reporter Zahra Shahtahmasebi about meeting this demand and what their experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has been like. Visuals by Simon Maude
“That’s the whole point of having a national coordinated response, being able to move work around, knowing where the pressure is and having visibility
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