Coronavirus Covid 19: 'Error in the system' - double testing during community case scare 3 Feb, 2021 06:33 PM 8 minutes to read Political reporter, NZ Herald@AmeliaJWade Some people who sought Covid swabs after last week's community case scare needed to be tested twice due to an 'error in the system', says director general of health Ashley Bloomfield. He said this didn't represent an alarming issue, as sometimes numbers fell off Covid codes from time to time. Bloomfield told Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB that a number of people in Northland had to be retested because there were no records of their results. Advertisement