CLINICAL UPDATE - Microbiology testing during COVID surge - August 2021 VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION - PLEASE READ

The current community outbreak of the COVID-19 Delta variant has caused a huge surge in local demand for SARS-CoV-2 testing, averaging over 2000 tests per day over the past 5 days for Pathlab.   

Other microbiology and molecular requests need to be urgently reduced in order to re-allocate staff for COVID testing. We would ask please that all “routine” testing is minimised as much as possible.

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