Health officials are tracking down the recent returnees who were staying at Auckland's Managed Isolated facility at the same time as the community cases and are yet to be tested.
Clean house WORKING ORDER
According to CNN,
Joe Biden will today sign a presidential memorandum to “reverse restrictions on abortion access domestically and abroad imposed and expanded by the Trump administration” specifically he will be rescinding a ban on government funding for foreign nonprofits that perform or promote abortions, aka the “Mexico City Policy”.
Biden will also sign orders to reopen federal marketplaces selling
Affordable Care Act health plans, and lower recent barriers to joining Medicaid,
Democrats also reintroduced legislation to bring America’s hourly minimum wage from a miserly US$7.25 to $15 incrementally, mind you, with a final date of 2025, after which the wage would be tied with indexation (or, y’know, Republicans take the White House and nix it entirely) while Biden will tomorrow sign orders expanding refugee intakes from Trump’s historically-low figures and establish a taskforce to reunite migrant families separated under the
All three tested positive to the highly contagious new South African variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, after completing hotel quarantine in the Pullman Hotel in Auckland. We ve had roughly around 400 tests already done of people who have travelled to New Zealand recently, including people who ve been in the Pullman, Queensland Health Minister Yvette D Ath said. They ve all come back negative. Ms D Ath said that in the past 24 hours, Queensland had carried out 6959 tests for the pandemic virus, up by 753 from yesterday. We can attribute some of that increase in testing to people who have been travelling in New Zealand, who have arrived in Queensland, and who now are heeding our advice and going off and getting tested, she said.
They saw other guest mingling and wore full personal protective equipment (PPE) in the hotel, but Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says that s not where they caught coronavirus. These were most likely due to inflight transmission and I have asked the team to go back and just have another look at that just to confirm that, Dr Bloomfield told reporters.
The mother told Newshub: I am upset because. Why say it comes from the airplane? Why not just admit that it s getting transferred in an isolation area and we dropped the ball?
She says when her daughters arrived from South Africa they were bundled onto a bus with returnees from other high risk countries, and COVID Response Minister Chris Hipkins says that shouldn t be happening.