‘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

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New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa

Labtests Mount Wellington
The Labtests laboratory in Mount Wellington is responsible for processing COVID-19 swabs collected from GP clinics in the Auckland and Northland regions

After four new community cases were confirmed in Auckland more than two weeks ago, 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