However, Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall told the MHB this morning we don't have a need for more saliva testing.
“Saliva testing - it depends where you put it in our system. I don’t think it’ll add much to dealing with the community outbreak when we have the wastewater testing and the nasopharyngeal PCR. But we’ve been increasingly using it for people getting repeat testing and those are our people in MIQ, and that’s probably a good place for it.”
Dr Wyllie said that she expected more progress onto using saliva testing over nasal swabs.
"They really want to look into it, really wanted to be sure, but I would've expected a lot more progress during this time."
Dr Wylie suggests that the Ministry of Health may be getting the wrong advice about saliva testing.
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