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An expert is downplaying fears our low testing rates mean we're missing Omicron infections.
Only about 13-thousand tests were administered on Sunday, a big fall from a daily test tally of around 20-thousand last week.
Auckland University modeller Dion O'Neale told Heather du Plessis-Allan the main reason to test is when people are symptomatic.
But he says people reporting through the flu-tracking survey are also relatively low on symptoms.
Dion O'Neale says daily test positivity has risen a little – but nothing like the rates seen in countries with uncontrolled spread.
“So they have gone up a little bit in the past week but they haven’t jumped to some huge level.”
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