More than 1500 people have been tested for Covid-19 in Northland, with no evidence so far of a positive result in the community, Ministry of Health figures
Covid 19 coronavirus: 14 close contacts of Northland community case test negative
25 Jan, 2021 09:47 PM
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• Covid-19 has now claimed 2.13 million lives worldwide, with a total of 99.3m cases.
• Meanwhile NZ health officials are investigating a case of the virus in the community - a woman, 56, who was infected in a managed isolation facility with the South African strain.
• Australia swiftly halted its travel bubble with NZ after news of the latest case.
Three more close contacts are still waiting for test results.
It follows Hipkins yesterday announcing that two close contacts of the case, her husband and hairdresser, were negative.
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Gina Moody and Sean Victor received negative test results on day 11 of managed isolation at the Pullman Hotel in Auckland.
A couple’s journey across the world to get home to Blenheim has been delayed at the final leg after learning they are casual contacts with the latest community Covid-19 case. Marlborough woman Gina Moody and her partner Sean Victor were at the Pullman Hotel in Auckland, where a Northland woman was staying before getting out and testing positive for the South African variant of Covid-19. Moody and Victor had spent the last year in the Mediterranean working on a private charter yacht, Moody as chief stew and Victor as captain, taking guests for week-long trips over the “very stressful” summer, juggling pandemic restrictions and paperwork that varied between ports.
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