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Waikato Respiratory Report - Week 34

25 08 2020

SARS-CoV-2 testing has been very active in the Waikato over the past 2 weeks, after a new cluster was found in Auckland and some cases had already travelled to the Waikato.

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Waikato Respiratory Virus Report - Week 33

19 08 2020

We tested a large number of samples for SARS-CoV-2 from Thursday last week onwards.

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Waikato Respiratory Virus Report - Week 32

11 08 2020

Respiratory viral diversity has been bottlenecked during the COVID level 3 and 4 shutdown and has not yet recovered.   Influenza and RSV remain absent.

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Waikato Respiratory Virus Report - Week 30

30 07 2020

Influenza A and RSV remain absent.   A few weakly positive SARS-CoV-2 results have been found in travellers in managed isolation facilities.

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Waikato Respiratory Virus Report - week 28

17 07 2020

Respiratory virus testing numbers have fallen off.   Ther is some rhinovirus around, but no Influenza, RSV or SARS-CoV-2. Waikato Respiratory Virus Report 2020 07 14    

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