Holding the line on COVID-19

Andrea Knowler didn't hesitate when asked by her employer, primary health organisation WellSouth, about her availability to work in a community-based assessment clinic (CBAC) in her home town of Invercargill Nurses do 90 per cent of the tests, with other health professionals, including a physio, clinical pharmacist and occupational therapist, in support roles The swab, resembling a "tiny bottlebrush", is inserted in both nostrils and down the throat and rotated at each site for 15 seconds to ensure the viral DNA is secured