I hate to say this, but it’s starting to feel like they made a mistake putting Auckland into this lockdown.
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Lodger of family in Auckland cluster not in quarantine, self-isolating at home
(Photo / NZ Herald) Thu, 4 Mar 2021, 6:11PM
A lodger in the same household as one of the families at the centre of Auckland s latest Covid-19 cluster is self-isolating at home instead of in a quarantine facility, the Ministry of Health has revealed.
The Ministry and Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) are aware of the man, who is a close contact of a case in one of the households.
They are self-isolating with daily management and have been tested, a ministry spokesperson told the Herald. The person has been self-isolating since the time he might have developed the disease, has returned a negative result and will be tested a second time in the coming days.
The National Party wants the government to pay 100 per cent of a person's wages for two weeks if they have to self-isolate.
All workers would qualify for
No new community cases; Minister defends stance on info given to KFC worker
No new community cases; Minister defends stance on info given to KFC worker
There are no new Covid-19 cases in the community today.
Covid Response Minister Chris Hipkins describes the result as good news, although he re-iterates the country is still in a critical period regarding the Auckland outbreak. There is light at the end of the tunnel, but it s still a very long tunnel, he said.
Hipkins said New Zealanders still had a lot of hard yards to do over the next year despite vaccines being on the horizon.
Papatoetoe High School principal Vaughan Couillault says he has had a frank discussion with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern about blaming Covid-infected fa