‘Herculean efforts’ by lab staff to meet COVID-19 testing demands

Since four new community cases were confirmed in Auckland on 11 August, Labtests has been inundated with COVID-19 tests. General manager Chris Davey, medical director Gary McAuliffe and Susan Smith, head of department of microbiology and molecular talk to reporter Zahra Shahtahmasebi about meeting this demand and what their experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has been like. Visuals by Simon Maude