New Zealand rushing to contain new COVID-19 community case

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COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said the new virus sample, from a female student based in Auckland, had now been directly, genomically linked to that of a Defence Force staff member who had spent time near where the woman worked.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.New Zealand health authorities are scrambling to stop a community outbreak of COVID-19, a day after a new case emerged in Auckland’s CBD.

Hipkins announced on Friday that there was positive news — no new cases had been detected among the woman's tested close contacts so far. He said while testing would ramp up in Auckland over the coming weeks, New Zealand's largest city would not raise its alert level up from stage one.But the minister also sounded a warning note to New Zealanders about the ongoing risk to the community.

He also reminded New Zealanders not to be angry at the two current community cases in Auckland and two in Wellington, which are all believed to be linked to the Defence employee who caught it from a worker at a managed quarantine facility and travelled between the two cities."Understandably, [they] feel the weight of the entire country on their shoulders [...] as we've said repeatedly it is the virus that's the problem and not the people.

 

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It's insane to aim for eradication, we just have to learn to live with Covid same as we live with other viruses, including various coronaviruses. We can't live in permanent fear of 'cases'. Esp that 'cases' do not even mean that someone is sick.

Hopefully one day the media will have to get back to some form of real Journalism and not just constant COVID bullshit

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