Genomic sequencing
Athina Andonatou made this Official Information request to Ministry of Health
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From: Athina Andonatou
Dear Ministry of Health,
As the PCR test does not differentiate between covid variants, how many of the positive PCR tests from 18th December 2021 were sent for genomic sequencing to determine that the variant was Omicron. Also please advise me what organisations carry out the genomic sequencing and provide me with the raw data that was used to determine this.
Yours faithfully,
Athina Andonatou
From: OIA Requests
Kia ora Athina,
Thank you for your request for official information received on 12 January
2022 for:
"As the PCR test does not differentiate between covid variants, how many
of the positive PCR tests from 18th December 2021 were sent for genomic
sequencing to determine that the variant was Omicron. Also please advise
me what organisations carry out the genomic sequencing and provide me with
the raw data that was used to determine this.”
The Ministry of Health has consolidated this request with your earlier
request for official information under reference number: H202117907.
As required under the Official Information Act 1982, the Ministry will
endeavour to respond to your request no later than 3 February 2022, being
20 working days after the day your first request was received.
Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic response, the Ministry is experiencing
significantly higher volumes of queries and requests for information. If
we are unable to respond to your request within this time frame, we will
notify you of an extension of that time frame.
If you have any queries related to this request, please do not hesitate to
get in touch.
Ngâ mihi
OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
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This is a completely separate request to H202117907 and is to be treated as such
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