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MIQ hotel audit finds numerous shortcomings

MIQ hotel audit finds numerous shortcomings Katie Todd © Getty Seven hotels needed more staff and three hotels didn t have outdoor furniture in their cleaning programme. Random checks of 13 managed isolation & quarantine (MIQ) hotels in February and March found staff shortages, PPE supply problems, returnees left to mingle in a lift lobby and bus drivers not wearing - or refusing to wear - the required N95 masks and eye protection. The Ministry of Health (MOH) has released more than 100 recommendations it made in the latest round of surveillance audits - noting improvements since December and January. In one instance observed by auditors, a bus was returning to an MIQ hotel after taking returnees on the 30-minute drive back from an outdoor exercise area.

Covid-19: MIQ hotel audit finds numerous shortcomings

Covid-19: MIQ hotel audit finds numerous shortcomings Covid-19: MIQ hotel audit finds numerous shortcomings By Katie Todd for RNZ Random checks of 13 managed isolation & quarantine (MIQ) hotels in February and March found staff shortages, PPE supply problems, returnees left to mingle in a lift lobby and bus drivers not wearing - or refusing to wear - the required N95 masks and eye protection. The Ministry of Health (MoH) has released more than 100 recommendations it made in the latest round of surveillance audits - noting improvements since December and January. In one instance observed by auditors, a bus was returning to an MIQ hotel after taking returnees on the 30-minute drive back from an outdoor exercise area.

Shielded from COVID-19: Looking back on a year of hotel quarantine in New Zealand, half-a-billion dollars later

The facilities were an unprecedented response to an unprecedented threat: coronavirus. The need for large-scale accommodation quickly became apparent in late March 2020 when the border was closed and Kiwis flooded home.  Fifteen hotels were quickly contracted in Auckland, says Megan Main, one of the joint heads of MIQ, reflecting on the past year s COVID-19 response.  By April 9, when the Prime Minister announced managed isolation was compulsory, we had 18 hotels to house returning Kiwis. We now have 32 facilities, across five regions, with an operational capacity of 4500 rooms, supporting up to 6200 returnees over a 14 day period. In the beginning, MIQ was managed by the Ministry of Health. In July 2020, it became an entire business unit within the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), which is overseeing a budget of almost $2 billion. 

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