New Zealanders have been given the all-clear to travel this weekend, as there are no new cases of COVID-19 in the community.
All 10 close contacts of the North Auckland father and daughter have returned negative results.
The close contacts of the Northland woman are returning negative results further to undergoing additional rounds of testing.
But importantly, 39 of the 353 people who stayed at the Pullman Hotel at the same time as the three cases above are yet to return negative results.
Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield didn’t know how many of the 39 had been tested.
Over 6000 tests were processed yesterday. Nearly 2% of the Northland population has been tested since Sunday.
There are 72 active cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand.
People who visited the same locations as the father and daughter in North Auckland are being asked to isolate and get tested. See the list of locations here.
MIQ worker sacked after 'encounter' with guest
COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins confirmed a worker at a managed isolation facility - the Grand Millennium Hotel - was sacked after having a 20-minute “encounter” with a guest.
The worker took the guest a bottle of wine, having exchanged notes with them - including one written on the back of a face mask.
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Obviously naïve NZ is being used as an easy corridor for 'Residents' to arrive back in NZ, then straight to Australia after Q, then onto Asia or wherever. Thus, killing the NZ to Aus travel pre-bubble, and the 2 way bubble hoped for. If you are arriving back in NZ you should be staying here for a purpose.
Is Australia going to forever clean up NZ's incompetence?
NZ really crushed this C19 backbone, so much so..no need for Lab testing capacity preparation, hence those long queue in Northland. I'm just surprise that Ashley mentioned the test result is processed in AKL. wow, talking about flattening the curve, buying time & being ready for the next waves.. oh ah uh forgot.. yea Vaccine is ready.
Mike Hosking nailed it again today. Essentially I think we are getting through this to this point in time with just dumb luck. With the new strains floating about its just a question of time before this blows up in our faces. We have had a year to get this sorted and its still a mess.
Only in NZ , busing the quarantined!!!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/124087086/covid19-b…
Wish Bloomfield would go on a few of these bus trips
so the EU -basically Germany and France -- are effectively introducing rules that mean any vaccine made in the EU -- goes to the EU countries first -- regardless of agreements in place -
Given that we are goign to need 5 - 10 million doses a year -- + the number of ordinary flu jabs -- does it ot make sense for hte government to use some of this borrowing to set up our own vaccine manufacturing plant ?
Would create some decent jobs - and give us vaccine security !
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