South Waikato's mayor is urging people to get tested, after a petrol station in Tokoroa is among new locations of interest spanning the Central North Island too.
Williams said a couple of contract variations are being priced to remedy the situation. “We are having issues with ventilation and Burton are going to price putting in additional grills near the top of the cubicles,” he said. “We are also having some issues with the toilet flush units which are being looked at. “They are very economic cisterns but they don t actually flush enough water down to clear the toilets. On one hand we have been trying to save water but we can t in these types of toilets. “It should be [an easy fix] except there is no commercial off-the-shelf product to be able to do that, we actually need to disable the half flush button.”
Cases per 100,000
Source: Ministry of Health
The death toll would have been much higher if the early and significant action New Zealand opted for had not been taken.
New Zealand was literally a week away from not being able to contain coronavirus when the decision was made to plunge into a nationwide lockdown, Royal NZ College of General Practitioners medical director Dr Bryan Betty said in June.
At the time, Betty said New Zealand was staring down the barrel of a potential health system meltdown similar to those seen in Italy, Spain, the UK and the US.
With the spectre seen in parts of Europe and Asia looming large, the healthcare system braced for the worst.