Rapid drug testing product for your Workplace from Inscience

Rapid drug testing product for your Workplace from Inscience

Key elements — testing isn’t just for people who don’t want or can’t get the vaccine. It’s another tool that can be applied for everyone initially in the workplace but also when possible in the community to identify risk, prevent infection transmission and stay as safe as possible so together we can defeat COVID-19 as fast as possible!

Inscience have secured MOH approved COVID-19 Antigen tests that are already in use in NZ, are accurate, tested and approved option for rapid testing. This type of Covid Test will soon be approved for use and delivery to and for your workplace by trained testers able to understand, guide and meet your testing needs. Learn more about how to purchase and implement serial rapid testing using our Ministry of Health authorized tests.

 

It’s clear that our personal choices have a significant impact on the greater scheme of things, which is perhaps no more true than when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines and COVID testing.

 

Unfortunately, despite the fact that our government have made vaccines widely available and have continuously encouraged people to get vaccinated many choose not to or some cannot get the vaccination for health reasons. The people who are unvaccinated are at risk of more serious illness and more likely to have poor outcomes and those that are vaccinated have lower the chances of contracting the virus, and in case of infection, decrease the chances of serious illness. WE encourage those with concerns over whether too get vaccinated to search out credible advise on this.

 

Whether people are vaccinated or not, it’s important to remember that we all need to take steps to help manage our collective lives alongside COVID-19. To do so, an extremely valuable measure in our battle to control ongoing spread of Covid infection is to COVID test on a regular basis to protect our people, their whanau and wider community. Identifying risk and taking action to reduce or eliminate that risk has long been a part of a NZ workplace and surveillance using Covid 19 rapid antigen testing will be available soon to identify covid infection and risk.

 

By COVID testing on a regular basis, even when asymptomatic, you are limiting the extent to which the virus can spread to others. 

Scale matters. Imagine for a moment, a future where people were tested on a regular routine basis and could then immediately self-isolated if they were determined infectious/contagious with COVID-19. Studies estimate and state that regular testing every five days can lead to a 40% reduction in the number of infections – and those estimates are based on a more lengthy 24-hour PCR processing time of a result.

Rapid antigen testing frequency and who should bbe tested needs careful consideration and we can help you determine this and how it may work for your workplace(s)

 Rapid antigen tests will be available from Inscience, and provided as a testing service in your workplace by Drugwise, local to you, can provide accurate results in just 15 minutes and up to 45 results per hour and can provide peace of mind to a worker and the workplace of any risk from Covid 19 and you can arrange for followup action to self-isolate. Combining frequent testing, vaccination, and our routine applicable measures such as mask wearing, hand washing and physical distancing  is the answer to beating the COVID-19 pandemic once and for all.

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Covid Testing Products

Covid Testing Products

Leading rapid antigen testing and antibody testing products – InScience is renowned for sourcing the highest quality, economic and best performing on site test solutions.

Two options NZ Govt/MOH approved for wider workplace use –

  1. SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Test Nasal – SD Biosensor Rapid Antigen Nasal test from world leading diagnostics giant, Roche Diagnostics. SD Biosensor is one of only 3 approved for use in NZ to date following an extensive study conducted by ESR – Click here for more info
  1. Innoscreen Rapid Diagnostic test –  Australia’s leading Covid rapid antigen nasal test, TGA approved and Aussie made. Two giants in Rapid antigen testing to provide superior testing options. – Click here for more info
  1. More test choices coming pending Medsafe product approval

 

*What does this word or process mean? – FAQ Covid RAT

 

InScience training for application and use of Covid rapid antigen testing recommended and available from 22nd November 2021

Professional testing services using these world’s best rapid antigen tests available for your workplace – enquire now or call 0800 SALIVA (725 482)

 

 

Vaccination and Rapid antigen testing- how they work together for NZ

Vaccination and Rapid antigen testing- how they work together for NZ

Vaccines are available to anyone over the age of 12 who wants it in the New Zealand and soon available for those 5-12 years old along with booster shots for those who were vaccinated 6 months or longer ago. So why should we consider, call for and use COVID testing?

Here’s why:

  • Vaccines are great! While they’re primarily designed to protect you from infection (and if infected, reduce the severity of disease), they also have secondary effects of helping reduce how much you spread disease if you are infected.
  • While many New Zealanders are now part or fully vaccinated, there’s still a ways to go AND the disease is still spreading in the community and not just an Auckland issue.
  •  Rapid tests are an easy way of knowing if you might potentially be able to spread the disease if you happen to contract it. You can contract Covid if vaccinated but are less likely to get very sick or need hospital care. Less complications or sickness doesn’t stop the vaccinated person from passing covid to others and especially the delta variant. Those who are not vaccinated are at risk of more severe effects of infection and so testing for active infection and detecting this as early as possible is even more crucial to spreading infection and early start to treatment to reduce severe effects of Covid.
  • Rapid antigen testing is rapid and accurate in detecting active Covid infections especially important in the vaccinated who may not display many symptoms ie  asymptomatic. They may be largely unaware of when theu are infectious to others
  • Testing is just one component of a Swiss cheese model of COVID-19 mitigation: nothing is perfect, but a combination of strategies is the safest, best possible option