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2021 was a boon for the Beijing restaurant scene, with so many new openings that we struggled to keep track of them all.

The data-matching system where the Government checks whether MIQ workers are properly tested failed to detect the case of the Grand Millenium security guar

The data-matching system where the Government checks whether MIQ workers are properly tested failed to detect the case of the Grand Millenium security guar

Covid 19 coronavirus: MIQ hotels only two-thirds full after transtasman bubble, taxpayers pay $300m for quarantine in past year 30 Apr, 2021 07:19 AM 3 minutes to read hree Auckland MIQ hotels are totally empty as of April 30, 2021: the Stamford Plaza, Grand Mercure and Grand Millenium hotels. Photo / Dean Purcell hree Auckland MIQ hotels are totally empty as of April 30, 2021: the Stamford Plaza, Grand Mercure and Grand Millenium hotels. Photo / Dean Purcell Tom Dillane is a reporter at the Ne...

OPINION: With the opening of a quarantine-free travel corridor between New Zealand and Australia this week, its easy to forget COVID-19 is still spreading globally, faster than ever, with more than 3 million deaths recorded worldwide. Within a day of the travel bubble opening, a fully vaccinated border worker who cleans planes coming from countries with high rates of COVID-19, tested positive and was transferred to a quarantine facility. Such cases show why it remains absolutely essential to ma...

Michael Plank Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury Within a day of the travel bubble opening, a fully vaccinated border worker who cleans planes coming from countries with high rates of COVID-19, tested positive and was transferred to a quarantine facility. Such cases show why it remains absolutely essential to maintain strict border measures to keep the virus out of the trans-Tasman bubble. Since January 1 2021, 397 international arrivals in New Zealand have...

Although most border workers are now vaccinated, regular testing remains essential to guard against the risk of a major outbreak in the community.

Grand Millenium MIQ facility in Auckland. Photo: RNZ / Dan Cook It comes as an investigation begins into how Covid-19 was transmitted in those facilities. Genome sequencing showed the virus spread between two returnees at the Grand Mercure, who arrived back on different flights, days apart. At the Grand Millenium, a returnee, a cleaner and two security guards are in a single chain of transmission. There are 224 isolating returnees across both hotels and once they all complete MIQ there will be...

Photo: Mohd Rasfan / AFP Ministry of Health records show that a security guard who tested positive last week missed about five months of testing before that. Now it appears there could be up to 60 staff who have also missed regular mandatory testing. A public health expert is warning the current system is not up to the job and needs an urgent fix before the trans-Tasman bubble opens. Regular Covid-19 testing for MIQ workers is compulsory so news of an infected security guard at the Grand Millen...

Prime minister’s comments come after border worker diagnosed last week said to have missed two vaccine appointments