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Waikato Respiratory Virus Report 2021 week 34

03 09 2021

We still have no COVID and RSV continues to decline. This report includes information on the timing of past years' influenza seasons.

Waikato Respiratory Virus Report 2021 Week 33

24 08 2021

Having tested 13933 samples, we can have high confidence that SARS-CoV-2 is not circulating in the Waikato or Coromandel.

Interim Respiratory Virus Report 21 August 2021

21 08 2021

Since the last report, we have recognised a COVID outbreak and are currently partway through defining its extent and controlling it. Interim respiratory virus report 21 Aug 2021

Waikato Respiratory Virus Report 2021 Week 31

10 08 2021

RSV is well on its way down now. We are now looking for incursions of SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza into New Zealand.

Waikato Respiratory Virus Report 2021 Week 30

04 08 2021

Respiratory Syncytial Virus case numbers continued to fall last week. We also have some Rhinovirus, ParaInfluenzavirus 3 and human Metapneumovirus.