That is the kind of targeting the Papatoetoe community is having to confront, with Covid-19 cases centred around Papatoetoe High School and a seven-day lockdown triggered by a positive case who was in the community while infectious. The area was dealt another blow when a man was shot dead by police on Thursday night.
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Dr Primla Khar is cautious about racism being directed at community cases. The video also points to the kind of ugliness that could rear its head if the ethnicity of the infected families was revealed, Khar says. Khar works as a family doctor in Papakura and heads up the Indian Association Manukau, based in Papatoetoe.
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