New Zealand Quarantine Worker Tests Positive for CCP Virus
A New Zealandhotel quarantine worker has tested positive for the CCP virus just days after the country announced a two-way safe zone travel bubble with Australia.
The 24-year-old security worker at Grand Millennium managed isolation facility in Auckland returned a positive swab test on Tuesday after complaining of a sore throat.
New Zealand Director-General of Health Dr. Ashley Bloomfield told reporters that the man had not been vaccinated.
“The person returned high CT values , which can mean it is either early on in their infection, nearing the end, or the case is historical,” the health ministry announced on Thursday. “An urgent repeat test is being carried out today to give health officials a better understanding of this person’s infection. Whole Genome Sequencing will be carried out.”
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New Zealand health officials said on Sunday they were investigating what they said was probably the country s first community coronavirus case in months, in a woman who recently returned from overseas.
The 56-year-old, who returned to New Zealand on 30 December, tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19 days after leaving a two-week mandatory quarantine at the border where she had twice tested negative. We are working under the assumptions that this is a positive case and that it is a more transmissible variant, either the one identified first in South Africa or the UK, or potentially Brazil - or another transmissible variant, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield told a news conference.
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A 56-year-old woman who had traveled to Spain and the Netherlands for work late last year has tested positive for the coronavirus. It s New Zealand s first probable community transmission in months.