NSW Health tracking down 455 New Zealand arrivals after Auckland COVID-19 case

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NSW Health is trying to track down the 455 people who have recently arrived from New Zealand after a new COVID-19 case emerged in Auckland’s CBD.

Passengers landing in Sydney from New Zealand on Friday night were also informed, but none reported having attended any of the venues or had symptoms.

New Zealand's 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.Nurses speak to people waiting in line at a testing station on High St, Auckland, near the A-Z Collection store where a worker has tested positive for COVID-19.

But the minister also sounded a warning note to New Zealanders about the ongoing risk to the community."We don't yet have a confirmed theory for how the virus was transmitted between the cases," he said. "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. They do not deserve to have blame heaped upon them."

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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COVID Is only for lambs.

Guess Gladys wants them on planes to other states ASAP.

Wow, someone in NZ has a cold. Hold the front page.

I thought saint ardern had eradicated COVID

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