Government 'not going to rule out expanding saliva testing' - Hipkins
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16/02/2021
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COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says the Government isn't ruling out expanding its saliva coronavirus testing regime after public health experts called for mandatory daily saliva tests for all frontline border workers.
In September last year, Otago University Centre for International Health founding director Philip Hill co-authored a testing report warning that "all efforts should be made to introduce saliva testing as soon as possible".
Following New Zealand's latest community COVID-19 cases - three UK variant infections found in the same south Auckland family from an unknown source - Prof Hill and Otago University and Otago University public health expert Nick Wilson called for daily saliva testing to become mandatory for all border workers.