Press Release – Science Media Centre The Wellington region will remain at alert level 2 until 11.59 pm Tuesday, two days longer than anticipated. The government says theres a need to see more testing results before any change in alert levels can be made. The rest of New Zealand stays …
The Wellington region will remain at alert level 2 until 11.59 pm Tuesday, two days longer than anticipated.
The government says there’s a need to see more testing results before any change in alert levels can be made. The rest of New Zealand stays at alert level 1.
The infected Sydney man’s partner has now tested positive in Australia, and may have been infected near the end of their Wellington visit or on the flight home. No new cases in the community were reported today.
Sunday, 27 June 2021, 5:16 pm
The Wellington region will remain at alert level 2 until
11.59 pm Tuesday, two days longer than
anticipated.
The government says there’s a need to
see more testing results before any change in alert levels
can be made. The rest of New Zealand stays at alert level
1.
The infected Sydney man’s partner has now tested
positive in Australia, and may have been infected near the
end of their Wellington visit or on the flight home. No new
cases in the community were reported today.
The SMC
asked experts to comment on the news. Feel free to use these
by Professor Michael Baker, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington
The decision to extend Alert Level 2 restrictions in Wellington for another two days until midnight on Tuesday is fully justified.
More than two thousand people were considered exposed to a potentially infectious traveller from Sydney who visited multiple crowded indoor venues last weekend in Wellington up until they left on Monday 21 June. The traveller was infected with the more infectious Delta variant of Covid-19. Given the timing, it is possible that some of these contacts are still incubating this infection and will only be identified in the coming few days, though the risk is now low.
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More than two million people in England may have had long Covid – study
Researchers say the findings suggest prevalence of persistent symptoms increases with age (Anna Gowthorpe/PA)
More than two million people in England may have had long Covid, new data suggests.
Findings from the React-2 studies show more than one third of people who had coronavirus reported symptoms lasting at least 12 weeks.
This amounts to 5.8% of the whole study population, with 2% reporting severe symptoms.
Researchers found the prevalence of long Covid increased with age and was higher among women.
The findings are based on self-reported data from 508,707 adults aged 18 and over who took part in rounds three to five of Imperial College London’s React-2 study carried out between September 2020 and February 2021.