13 Aug 2020

Covid testing increase and genome testing key

From Afternoons, 1:30 pm on 13 August 2020

With the current outbreak in Auckland experts say testing is key to keeping the spread of COVID-19 contained. It's also been emphasised that genome testing will help understand how long the virus has been in the community. 

Physicist and virus modeller, Auckland Professor Shaun Hendy, talks to Jesse about why more testing will help as well as what the genomes tell scientists. 

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