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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...

Covid 19 coronavirus: Travellers arriving at similar time will now stay at same MIQ hotel 23 Apr, 2021 08:32 AM 3 minutes to read People returning to New Zealand at about the same time will now be taken to the same managed isolation hotels. Photo / Alex Robertson People returning to New Zealand at about the same time will now be taken to the same managed isolation hotels. Photo / Alex Robertson RNZ People returning to New Zealand about the same time will now be taken to the same managed isolati...

Restaurateurs based at MIQ hotel going to court after business just died Katie Todd The government did not consult surrounding businesses before approving hotels for use as MIQ facilities. Now a dispute between the owners of the Stamford Plaza Hotel in Auckland and the owners of a restaurant that used to lease its premises is heading to court. Bo and Edward Viterbo say they were likely among the longest-serving restaurant owners in Auckland, having launched three successful Thai...

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...

Covid 19 coronavirus: Restaurateurs based at MIQ hotel going to court after business just died 22 Apr, 2021 07:38 AM 6 minutes to read Bo and Edward Viterbo say they are likely among the longest-serving restaurant owners in Auckland. Photo / Katie Todd Bo and Edward Viterbo say they are likely among the longest-serving restaurant owners in Auckland. Photo / Katie Todd RNZ The Government did not consult surrounding businesses before approving hotels for use as MIQ facilities. Now a dispute betwe...

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.

But we have seen some cases leak out from the border. These fall into two main categories: returnees leaving managed isolation while still infectious and frontline border workers becoming infected with the virus. To consider the effectiveness of various border policies, we pulled together data on transmission of Covid-19 and rates of false negative test results into a mathematical model. The research, published today, allowed us to quantify the risk of community outbreaks under different quar...

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...

KUALA Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) will consider views from different segments of the community in deciding how its community halls are to be managed. In response to the call by eight Kuala Lumpur MPs to disallow the management of such venues to be given to third parties, Federal Territories Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa said DBKL would take their views into consideration. “If the MPs have suggestions and views on the matter, we will pay attention, but it does not mean we will follow. “We cannot ...