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There are two new positive cases of COVID-19 to report in managed isolation since yesterday. The seven-day rolling average of new cases detected at the border is one. No previously reported cases have recovered. The total number of active cases in New Zealand today is 33. Our total number of confirmed cases is 2,245. Since 1 January 2021, there have been 49 historical cases, out of a total of 429 cases. Response to Perth lockdown Quarantine-free travel between Western Australia and New Zealand ...

Friday, 23 April 2021, 11:41 am An independent report into the three transmission events that occurred in January at the Pullman Hotel managed isolation facility in Auckland has been released today. The Ministry of Health and the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment, which has oversight of Managed Isolation and Quarantine, noted that the report found while it was not possible to conclude with absolute certainty where and how transmission occurred, the most likely mode of transmissio...

The government made the right decision to suspend flights from India from 11 April.

The Pullman Hotel managed isolation facility in Auckland. Photo: RNZ / Dan Cook The Auckland facility was closed after three guests tested positive for the virus in separate incidents in January, then operated at a 50 percent capacity. An independent report into the facility was unable to conclude with "absolute certainty" how transmission occurred, but it was likely to be airborne. Transmission in at least two cases was most likely through exposure to aerosols in a lift or in relation to a li...

Press Release – Ministry of Health An independent report into the three transmission events that occurred in January at the Pullman Hotel managed isolation facility in Auckland has been released today. The Ministry of Health and the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment, which has oversight of Managed Isolation and Quarantine, noted that the report found while it was not possible to conclude with absolute certainty where and how transmission occurred, the most likely mode of transm...

And thats not all. "They need to test run their contact tracing regime," said Associate Professor Collin Tukuitonga, who led a previous inspection team in February. "This is as important as testing, for early control." He acknowledged the concerns expressed about latter-day colonialism, observing that she who pays the piper calls the tune. "I think Prime Minister Ardern was spooked by measles in Samoa, reported to be from New Zealand. She doesn’t want similar in the Cooks, one assumes." Air...

Abigail Dougherty/Stuff The ventiation system at the Grand Mercure Hotel in Britomart, Auckland, is currently under review. It is currently a legal requirement for some frontline border workers, including those working at quarantine facilities like Jet Park Hotel and some port workers, to be tested every week. It has also emerged that a security guard at the Grand Millennium Hotel, who tested positive earlier this month, had not been tested since November. His employer, First Security, said ...

Steel fences surround Villawood detention centre in Sydney, where many ‘501s’ are held before deportation. Australia’s enforcement of the populist immigration policy has dogged diplomatic relations since 2014. The topic is likely to be on the agenda when Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne arrives for talks with counterpart Nanaia Mahuta on Wednesday. Since 2015, 2374 Kiwis have been sent back across the Tasman, with numbers reaching a peak in 2017 at 468 returnees. Last year, as ...

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...

Hipkins was speaking at todays 1pm Covid-19 update, alongside Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield. Bloomfield says there are no new Covid-19 cases in the community today, and two new imported cases have been identified in Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) facilities. Bloomfield says one of the new cases arrived from India and tested positive on day three and the other arrived from Pakistan and tested positive on day seven - the latter case is a contact of an earlier reported case....