Increased surveillance testing in healthcare, border, quarantine and essential workers is a key focus to help stamp out Auckland’s delta COVID-19 outbreak.
COVID-19 testing at the beginning of the outbreak focussed heavily on those who had contact with cases, were symptomatic or who had been in locations of interest.
Now that the situation is changing, so is our approach to testing. We are seeing that in the falling testing numbers. Today’s testing numbers of 4,750 tests processed is our lowest figure since the outbreak.
Fewer new locations of interest and the lockdown’s impact on effectively stopping the spread of all respiratory illnesses have greatly reduced demand for testing.