19 Aug 2020

Covid-19: Health officials support serology test for tracing

From Morning Report, 7:09 am on 19 August 2020

A special type of blood test could give vital clues as to how an isolation hotel maintenance worker got Covid-19 from an infected guest he had never met.

Health officials are stumped and are being urged to use serology testing which can reveal if a person has had the disease even if they haven't had a positive Covid-19 test.

It could show if a third person is the missing link between the worker and the infected woman isolating in the hotel.

Charlotte Cook reports.