Australians have been unlawfully charged for managed isolation stays in New Zealand because of an error in what the National Party is calling a shoddy law.
Government security roles have only recently been advertised, eight months after the government decided to hire its own security force instead of using private firms.
If an MIQ worker refuses to be vaccinated and their employer can't find them other work, they should "not necessarily" lose their job, Unite Union says.
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One year ago today, all arrivals at New Zealand airports began to be taken to managed isolation hotels for a 14-day stay.
Since then, 130,600 people have passed through the 32 border hotels.
Joint head Megan Main said staff working at the facilities had made considerable personal sacrifices to keep those people safe.
More than 850 people have tested positive for Covid-19 during their stay - including about 95 current cases.
Main said MIQ had been a process of continuous improvement and the biggest learning curve had been adapting at pace . If something goes wrong, we get together and learn from it. If our operating environment needs changing, we work together with colleagues from the Ministry of Health in particular to look at new policies we need to introduce. Anything we need to do to strengthen infection prevention control. It s faced paced, she said.
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Cabinet will decide if the seven days of lockdown - that began on Sunday - is long enough to be satisfied there s no widespread transmission.
In today s Covid-19 briefing, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said it still had not been a week on from the last known public exposure event at an Auckland gym, where a positive case had visited whilst unknowingly infectious.
He said in the next 24 hours, officials would want to see test results from that gym before deciding about alert levels.
Professor Philip Hill who specialises in international health at the University of Otago told Checkpoint the time and course of that case s illness as well as the environment could be factors in that decision.