15 Feb 2021

Saliva testing to go ahead at high risk sites

From The Panel, 4:35 pm on 15 February 2021

The Prime Minister has announced that New Zealand has started the use of daily saliva testing in some high-risk sites alongside the nasal swabs. John Mackay, Technical Director at dnature Diagnostics & Research Ltd, joins The Panel to discuss the advances in saliva testing. 

Sample bottle for collecting saliva specimens at a Covid-19 testing station in Hong Kong.

Sample bottle for collecting saliva specimens at a Covid-19 testing station in Hong Kong. Photo: AFP