Kia ora.
ESR - Covid-19 Waste Water Testing
Please click the link above - or see an image of the map and list below - this is a great visualization.
It is interesting to note on the table that only on the week ending October 16th were all current testing sites sampled in Northland. This is despite the initial positive test in Whangarei being detected on October 4th, later confirmed on October 7th, leading to a region wide Level 3 lockdown that started October 8th.
Perhaps resources have been diverted to Auckland in an effort to pin point hotspots there? Ideally sampling of all sites would have been happening each week?
It is also interesting to note that Northland has 19 testing sites, but Southland only one. This is understandable given Northland is at a much higher risk than Southland because of it’s physical proximity to the Auckland outbreak. But given that waste water testing for Covid-19 appears to be a valuable tool for early detection - hopefully the resourcing of this is scaled up in the future around the country?
Regards, Ben.
See also:
Covid-19 Tools #6 - The Surge, brown-sugar, and sexual health (Contact Tracing)
Covid-19 Tools #5 - Flying under the radar - QR Codes
Covid-19 Tools #3 - Data Bomb
Covid-19 Tools #2 - Book a Vaccine or Get a Test
Covid-19 Tools #1 - Locations of Interest Maps
