Covid 19 coronavirus: Northland iwi leaders to meet today to discuss latest case
25 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Susan Botting is the Local Democracy Reporter for Northlandsusan.botting@northernadvocate.co.nz
Northland iwi leaders will meet today in the wake of New Zealand s first new Covid-19 community case since November.
Te Kahu o Taonui, the Northland Iwi Chairs Forum will meet by Zoom at noon.
Harry Burkhardt, Te Kahu o Taonui chairman, said the group of 11 iwi leaders would be meeting, with other organisations invited including Northland District Health Board, police, Civil Defence and the Ministry of Social Development.
Te Kahu o Taonui played a key role in Northland s 2020 Covid-19 response.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Distressed and anxious : Ngātiwai s urgent call for more testing in Whangārei-Kaipara
25 Jan, 2021 08:40 PM
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Originally published by Māori Television
The Ngātiwai Trust Board has raised urgent concerns with the Northland District Health Board and government officials about what it says are inadequate numbers of community-based testing centres available in the Whangārei–Kaipara region.
Ngātiwai Trust Board chairman, Aperahama Kerepeti-Edwards, says: We have had a number of kaumātua and whānau contact us today distressed and anxious. They have said that they are arriving at the testing centres only to find huge queues and wait times of three hours or more. They are sitting in their cars in near 30C heat, getting hot, thirsty and distressed.
text by Jamie Morton and Claire Trevett, NZ Herald
Northland residents have waited up to three and a half hours to get a Covid test this morning after the
Covid 19: Anxious wait for region as as locations woman visited revealed
24 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Bendon Outlet in Whangārei was among 30 places the woman who tested positive for Covid visited.
Photo / Adam Pearse
Bendon Outlet in Whangārei was among 30 places the woman who tested positive for Covid visited.
Photo / Adam Pearse
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Northlanders becoming blase about using the Covid tracer app have had a wake-up call after a woman from the region tested positive after twice returning negative results at a quarantine facility.
The woman, 56, lives just south of Whangārei and travelled with her husband in the southern parts of Northland, to about 30 places around Mangawhai, Dargaville and Helensville, and became symptomatic on January 15.