Seamanu Simon Matāfai thought he was going to die from Covid-19 last year. Today, he has a new lease of life and spreading some cheer in his community.
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Media release from the Pasifika Medical Association Group
Thursday 8 April 2021, 02:38 PM
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For the first time, a choir master who contracted COVID-19 as part of the single biggest cluster in New Zealand last year, is speaking out about his experience and how the severe complications he endured made him feel like “it was the end”.
After 102 days of no new COVID-19 cases in the community since the first lockdown in March 2020, the country went into its second lockdown in August, with 159 men, women and children testing positive, mainly from the Pacific community.
Seumanu Simon Matāfai and his household of four, including his elderly parents in their seventies, were part of this “August cluster” as they contracted COVID-19 from a close contact.