About 300 people at a Queenstown supermarket are being swabbed for sentinel testing to examine whether there has been community transmission in the resort or not. Ministry of Health's director-general Dr Ashley Bloomfield confirmed at the daily Covid-19 update today that the testing in Queenstown was under way. Unsuspecting shoppers heading to Queenstown’s Pak ’n’ Save today have been recruited for random Covid-19 swabs to help the Government decide whether to lift the level 4 lockdown. Photo: Matthew MckewWellSouth chief executive Andrew Swanson-Dobbs, who is co-ordinating the pop-up testing site, said it had been established to test 300 random members of the public. The pop-up testing site has been established to test 300 random members of the public.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 16, 2020 01:41 UTC