Testing Plan for COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand
The COVID-19 Testing Plan for Aotearoa New Zealand sets out how testing will support our COVID-19 response.
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About this item
- Issue date:
- 13 December 2022
- Status:
- Current
- Corporate Author:
- Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand
- Type:
- Guidance
- Topic:
- COVID-19
- Copyright status:
© Crown Copyright, Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- ISBN:
- 978-1-99-106713-5
On this page
- COVID-19 Testing Plan
- Table 1 - Recommended Testing target groups by rate of transmission by setting
- Guidance: Hospitals & secondary based care facilities
- Guidance: Primary care and other clinic-based settings
- Guidance: Aged residential care and closed facilities
- Guidance: Community providers and disability sector
- Testing guidance for businesses
- Testing on arrival to Aotearoa New Zealand
- Testing technologies and modalities
The COVID-19 Testing Plan is informed by COVID-19 Modelling Aotearoa, and what has happened overseas. It provides the framework to support decisions about when and who to test for COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The COVID-19 Testing Plan is structured in three sections:
- The Purpose of Testing (diagnostic, surveillance and asymptomatic screening)
- A Testing Response Framework (including testing advice under low, medium and high transmission)
- Settings Based Advice
The Testing Plan also includes seven appendices; each one is a guidance document focused on a particular health care setting.