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-----Original Message-----
From: C Nowland <[FYI request #19028 email]>
Sent: Friday, 1 April 2022 10:34 am
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Number of Omicron cases from PCR
test samples - 27/1/22 to 31/3/22

 

Dear Ministry of Health,

 

As the PCR test does not differentiate between covid variants, how many of
the positive PCR tests from 27/1/22 to 31/3/22 were sent for genomic
sequencing to determine that the variant was Omicron? 

 

Yours faithfully,

 

C Nowland

 

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Kia ora C Nowland,

Thank you for your request for official information received on 1 April
2022 for:

 

 “As the PCR test does not differentiate between covid variants, how many
of the positive PCR tests from 27/1/22 to 31/3/22 were sent for genomic
sequencing to determine that the variant was Omicron?”

 

Your request asks for information which is more closely connected with the
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Ngâ mihi,

 

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Dear C Nowland

 

 

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dated 1 April 2022 to the Ministry of Health (reference H202204863), who
transferred your request to ESR on 4 April 2022.

 

 

Thank you and regards,

 

Andrew

 

 

Andrew Scanlon

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