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While bookings were open for Covid-19 tests at the newly stood-up Te Papa Tongarewa car park testing site, queues were largely non-existent on Friday morning. Health authorities were operating under the assumption the Sydney man was infected with the highly contagious Delta variant. The officials moved the region into alert level 2 on Wednesday to 11.59pm Sunday.
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Covid testing is underway at a pop-up testing station at Hataitai Park as Wellington moves to alert level 2. Te Pūnaha Matatini and University of Canterbury Professor Michael Plank said while the latest results were “encouraging”, it was too soon to conclude there had been no community transmission given more than 1000 people were still awaiting test results.
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