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Cars were lined up on Tukapa St outside the Taranaki Base Hospital Covid-19 testing centre on Monday morning. About 200 people went through the testing station set up at Taranaki Base Hospital, a Taranaki District Health Board update at 4.30pm said. Rotorua found itself in a similar situation six months ago following an outbreak of the virus in Auckland. Two family members of a Covid-19 positive south Auckland family holidayed in Rotorua and Taupō at a time when one of them was symptomatic. Auckland was put into a level 3 lockdown while the rest of the country was moved into level 2.
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“I often stand up for Oranga Tamariki but I have reached a point of despair,” she said. “Our organisation has been involved with several situations where OT’s actions simply stump us. The child seems to be the last consideration and political correctness seems far more important.” Rankin, a former Families Commissioner, said she’d been told by a senior Oranga Tamariki manager that meth use alone was not a reason to remove a child from a home and that some people could function “perfectly well” on the drug.
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Nevaeh Ager by the water in Little Waihi. “P is a totally unpredictable mind-altering drug,” Rankin said. “It causes disgusting behaviour in many people who then turn on children who have no hope of defending themselves.
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