1 Apr 2020

Coronavirus: Health Minister on testing, ventilators

From Morning Report, 7:39 am on 1 April 2020

New Zealand is continuing to ramp up it's capability for testing for Covid-19 in the hopes of sniffing out any chains of community transmission during the lockdown.

Meanwhile, government adviser and intensive care doctor Andrew Stapleton says New Zealand has ordered a 'large number' of new ventilators, despite soaring demand on the global market.

Minister of Health David Clark speaks to Susie Ferguson about how the response to the pandemic is going.