Today’s press conference #covid19nz

PM @jacindaardern “we have to factor in human behaviour as well, we can only test people who are coming forward for testing at those community testing stations” ... “we can only test those who make themselves available, obviously”
Director General @AshBloomfield “we’ve got our surveillance plan now geared up”

That sounds incredibly passive!

Do the PM’s comments mean that NO wider community screening is taking place such as testing all contacts of positive cases, returning NZers, health workers etc??
Are only symptomatic self presenters being tested?
Or do her comments only refer to CBACs?

The Dir Gen’s comments imply that only now is community surveillance gearing up.

Epidemiologists of Twitter- is this any way to run a testing and screening program during a pandemic?
Dear media, the question needs to be asked, are we testing only symptomatic self presenters, or is there a wider community screening program in place??
@MichaelMorrah @NewshubNZ @NewsroomNZ @AmeliaJWade @NatalieAkoorie @NZStuff @coughlthom @nzherald
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