The Bulletin: Country waking up to heightened alert levels
Good morning and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: 72 hours of lockdown incoming for Auckland, vaccinations of border workers to begin imminently, and hospo businesses facing a difficult week.
A new set of three Covid-19 cases in the community has been found, and the alert levels have shifted as a result. The cases are all part of a family group – a mother, father and teenage daughter. The mother works at LSG SkyChefs, an airport laundry and catering facility, and is part of a regular testing cycle, though her case was not picked up through that process. She sought a further test when she became ill, which Dr Ashley Bloomfield said was the right thing to do. The new cases are reportedly the UK strain of Covid-19. Further live updates over the course of Monday can be found here.
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A number of new locations of interest relating to the three new community Covid-19 cases have been released.
The new active community cases are a mother,