The country’s director of health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, said the case was “a national issue”. So far, the Ministry of Health has identified 23 locations of interest – 13 in and around Coromandel and 10 in Auckland. He and his wife traveled to the Coromandel region on Friday, then returned to Auckland on the 15th. He was tested on Saturday the 14th, so the infectious period was considered to have started on Thursday 12th.
The case in question is a 58-year-old man from Devonport, Auckland. Health officials have not yet been able to establish any connection between this case and the country’s border facilities. “We’ve seen the dire consequences of taking too long to act in other countries, not least our neighbours,” she said, referring to the outbreak in Australia, which the country has struggled to bring under control. As it is, we are one of the last countries in the world to have the Delta variant in our community, so we have had the chance to learn from others,” she said. “With Delta raging around the world … it was not a matter of if, but when. Data released by the Ministry of Health on Monday showed 100% of Covid-19 cases detected at New Zealand’s border in recent weeks had been Delta. They can only leave the house to buy food or medical supplies, to access medical care or for socially distanced exercise.Īrdern said New Zealand would not know if the case was Delta until its genome was sequenced – but that the government would be working under that assumption until informed otherwise. Under level 4, all New Zealanders are asked to shelter in place in a “bubble” that only includes their immediate household or dependents. We have seen what can happen elsewhere if we fail to get on top of it.
It means we need to again go hard and early to stop the spread. The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, said: “Delta has been called a gamechanger, and it is. New Zealand has not had a level 4 lockdown in more than a year, and the case is believed to be the first Delta in-community transmission.
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