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.