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New Zealand Is No Longer Free Of COVID-19

This comes only a week after the country’s restrictions were lifted.
17 Jun 2020, 02:13 PM
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Last week, New Zealand announced that the country was free of COVID-19. However, just a week after the restrictions were lifted, the country is now no longer free from the pandemic.

It was reported that two women who flew from London had tested positive for COVID-19. The women travelled to New Zealand to visit a dying parent.

They had been given an exemption to leave quarantine on compassionate grounds which allowed them to travel before getting tested. The two women then drove from Auckland to Wellington.

New Zealand’s Health Director-General, Ashley Bloomfield stated that the women had no contact with other people or any public facilities on their trip.

The new cases have sparked a round of testing in New Zealand for anyone who had close contact to the women, including passengers and staff who were on their flights, which arrived via Brisbane, Australia.

The women are now in isolation in Wellington, New Zealand and have delayed their parent’s funeral until they’ve recovered.

New Zealand had gone more than 3 weeks without any new cases and had lifted some of their restrictions.

The country's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern appointed Assistant Chief of Defense, Air Commodore Digby Webb to oversee the quarantine and manage isolation facilities which include the processes of exiting people from facilities.

Ardern added that military logistics, military operational expertise and personnel can be used to run the quarantine facilities if needed.

“We require not one but two tests to be undertaken at those facilities.  It did not, and there are no excuses” Prime Minister Ardern said.

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