But with the new strains now inside New Zealand s isolation facilities, there are calls for more to be done.
Allister Rose, a former police officer and WorkSafe inspector who now runs a health and safety consultancy, said his contacts working at airports, ports and MIQ hotels fear another outbreak. The sort of thing that I m hearing is that everyone s on holiday at the moment - everyone s at the beach, he said. They see their colleagues going off to the beach and they re waiting for their turn to head off to the beach as well. So people are feeling a little bit too relaxed and they re not being checked by WorkSafe so we don t actually know how efficient our workers are at MIQ or any of the ports.
A former WorkSafe inspector says procedures at airports, ports and MIQ facilities are far too relaxed to prevent one of the new strains of Covid-19 getting into the community.