From your nose to the lab: The life of a COVID-19 swab

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Ever wondered what happens to your COVID swab once it leaves your nose? The ABC follows a PCR test from the testing site and into the pathology lab as Victoria sails past a milestone 10 million tests.

Chances are, some time over the past 18 months you will have had a stick stuck up your nose to test for COVID-19.

Suja George, assistant nurse manager at the Clayton COVID-19 testing site, said her staff were still excited by their work. Courier Ben Tawflis has been ferrying COVID-19 tests from testing sites to Monash Hospital for the duration of the pandemic.He works seven days a week, going between the sites and the hospital five times every day to deliver his precious cargo."It's a big difference from picking up pallets of render, paints and going all over Melbourne. You know, this is more serious than my previous runs.

In March last year, Monash Pathology had four, full-time staff working in their molecular microbiology laboratory, working business hours, Monday to Friday. "But now, our record has been 5,000 samples a day, so we're not complaining anymore about influenza."

 

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