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Covid 19 coronavirus: Opinion - Labours indefensible, cynical behaviour leaves us all poorer 16 Apr, 2021 04:00 AM 6 minutes to read Questions about the strength of the Governments border controls remain unanswered. Photo / Dean Purcell OPINION: Did you know returnees spend 14 days in MIQ after they arrive in New Zealand? Or that Covid-19 can be transmitted via air particles as well as droplets? The Labour MPs on Parliaments health committee apparently have such an insufficien...

Peter Wilson*. Analysis - A startling revelation shows up cracks in the testing regime just as the vaccine rollout comes under scrutiny, and National faces another bout of leadership speculation. Chris Hipkins after getting his first jab of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone The governments pandemic response was under stress this week as a series of revelations raised questions about the integrity of its systems. The most surprising was an admission by the Mini...

Ministry of Health Minister for Covid Response Chris Hipkins has backed the Christchurch nurse who put a call out on social media to avoid wasting Covid-19 vaccines after too many were delivered to the city. OPINION: There was a certain sense of excitement in the air. Nestled on green chairs in the drab Ministry of Health meeting room where Covid-19 briefings are held were Ashley Bloomfield, deputy director-general of health in charge of data and digital Shayne Hunter​, and Counties Manukau D...

Ardern admits calling COVID-positive security worker a liar was a bit blunt Newshub 3 hrs ago © Newshub Watch the Prime Ministers press conference. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern admits calling a COVID-positive security worker a liar was "a bit blunt" - but it doesnt change her view that everyone has a role to play.  Ardern made the comments on Wednesday, after officials from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) - which oversees managed isolation (MIQ) - told the Heal...

One case was a returnee from Ethiopia and the other from India.

First Security says the Government has misrepresented its efforts to ensure its managed isolation workers are getting regular Covid-19 surveillance tests.

MIQ security guards testing hiatus: Ardern maintains company, guard to blame Craig Mcculloch © Provided by Radio New Zealand Jacinda Ardern makes Mana Ake announcement, Manurewa, 15 April Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has conceded her language was "a bit blunt" when she called an MIQ guard a liar, but maintains he and his employer bear some responsibility for the latest testing failure. The workers employer First Security, meanwhile, has placed the blame on the Ministry of He...

MIQ boss reveals exact number of workers who might never have been tested for COVID-19 Newshub 4 hrs ago Dan Satherley, Isabella Durant © Video - The AM Show; Images - Getty/The AM Show/Google Maps Megan Main on The AM Show. Thats despite regular fortnightly testing being a legal requirement since September last year.  It comes after COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins revealed a security guard at the Grand Millennium in Auckland who contracted the deadly virus hadnt ...

1 NEWS The Grand Millennium security guard told his employer had been tested regularly, but it appears that is not the case, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says. First Security says the Government has misrepresented its efforts to ensure its managed isolation workers are getting regular Covid-19 surveillance tests. The company, contracted to provide security guards to some managed isolation and quarantine facilities (MIQ), has contested Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins’ cla...

Covid 19 coronavirus: A system that can be hacked by lying is not a good system 15 Apr, 2021 12:29 AM 6 minutes to read PM Jacinda Ardern says the security guard who tested positive to Covid-19 lied about being tested. Video / Mark Mitchell PM Jacinda Ardern says the security guard who tested positive to Covid-19 lied about being tested. Video / Mark Mitchell Other OPINION: Yesterday Jacinda Ardern angrily declared that an MIQ worker had lied. That should not be a sufficiently sophisticated tec...