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Wednesday, 14 April 2021, 3:26 pm Māori and Iwi health providers were among the first tier 2 populations to get the COVID-19 vaccine today, as the roll-out continues in the MidCentral DHB region. The second tier of the national vaccine rollout also includes about 480,000 frontline workers, people living in high risk settings, and older Māori and Pacific people and their carers. This follows on from the start of national Tier 1 testing of Border and Managed Isolation and Quarantine Workers (M...

Bloomfield says they're still investigating when infection may have occurred between the Grand Millennium staff members, with late March a possibility.

It follows three MIQ workers contracting COVID-19 over the past few weeks.

A year after MIQ was established, 86 percent of workers there have been vaccinated, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says, while also signalling a state memorial service for Prince Philip.

Dr Ashley Bloomfield and MIQ chief Brigadier Jim Bliss are due to give a Covid-19 update. The Director-General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, and the joint head of Managed Isolation and Quarantine, Brigadier Jim Bliss, will provide an update on Covid-19 cases this afternoon. Stuff

Genome results show the infection of three Grand Millennium workers who have tested positive for Covid-19 are very closely related, Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says.

Quarantine czar Brigadier Jim Bliss won't say the surveillance testing of managed isolation workers is happening every 14 days, as required.

Monday, 12 April 2021, 1:19 pm There are no new cases in the community to report today. There are 7 new positive cases of COVID-19 to report in managed isolation since our media statement last night. The seven-day rolling average of new cases detected at the border is 9. There is also one new historical case to report. Historical cases are not considered to be infectious. The number of previously reported cases that have now recovered is 17. The total number of active cases in New Zealand toda...

Unvaccinated border workers may continue in some frontline MIQ jobs for the next three weeks before they are moved to other roles.

The government's move to make it mandatory for all testing of border workers to be recorded in a central register is being derided as months too late.