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Covid 19 coronavirus: Testing stations open in Northland over long weekend
29 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Five Covid testing stations will be open across Northland between 10am and 2pm this long weekend.
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Imran Ali is a reporter for the Northern Advocateimran.ali@nzme.co.nznorthernadvocat
Covid testing stations will be open across Northland this long weekend and the Government said services would be scaled-up if required, in light of thousands of visitors visiting from outside the region.
Only the testing stations on Winger Cres in Kamo and the one at Ruakākā Race Course were slated to open today but the Northland District Health Board (NDHB) confirmed testing at those venues would be available on all three days over the long weekend.
There will be anxiety, anger – blame even. All those emotions you expect when something like this happens.
KEVIN STENT
The new Covid-19 case was announced on Sunday. But Kaipo said the anger wouldn’t be directed at the woman who had tested positive – it would be directed towards the system. “It was a system failure. That s what needs to be looked at. “We need to have a good hard look at our border control. You know a lot of countries are already shutting their doors to people returning from these at-risk countries, with all these new strains popping up. We [New Zealand] need to have a good look at that, I believe.”
The latest community Covid-19 patient is highly likely to have caught the disease directly from a person on the same floor as her in managed isolation.
In a news briefing this afternoon, minister in charge of the Covid-19 response Chris Hipkins said genomic testing has shown the 56-year-old woman has the South African variant of the disease (B.1.3.5.1.) and that it is identical to another person staying on the same floor as her at the Pullman Hotel.
That person tested positive shortly before the woman left the hotel at the end of her stay. Early information suggests the transmission occurred between 9 January and 13 January.