Saliva Testing Delayed – Again

It’s been ten months since the Government’s own experts said ‘all efforts’ should be made to introduce saliva testing as soon as possible, but the Government has delayed the roll out yet again, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins today announced an ‘expansion’ of saliva testing, an announcement that is remarkably similar to the last time he announced a saliva testing expansion back on 26 May this year. “In May Minister Hipkins said saliva testing would commence ‘as part of a phased roll out beginning in June’,” Mr Bishop says. “Today the Minister announced that saliva