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  #2640981 24-Jan-2021 13:15
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it seems he/she was just released after clearing 14 days in MIQ, so interested what happened.





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  #2640986 24-Jan-2021 13:56
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They are calling it a case of Community Transmission.  But the person was just released from MIQ? So, their infection didn't come from MIQ (as many would I assume, think) it came from someone as yet unknown in the community? If its CT it must be the latter




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  #2640990 24-Jan-2021 14:12
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Clarified

 

Covid 19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said there was not yet any evidence of actual community "transmission" in Northland. "It's still most likely this is a border case."

 

 


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  #2640991 24-Jan-2021 14:12
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Perhaps a test at day 12 with complete full isolation - not leaving room for anything at all until leaving facility, then another test three days after being released?




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  #2640994 24-Jan-2021 14:16
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freitasm: Perhaps a test at day 12 with complete full isolation - not leaving room for anything at all until leaving facility, then another test three days after being released?

 

Yes that would be ideal. They don't do the latter, but you would have thought they must be doing the former. Otherwise its as loose as the test 72 hours before flight departure.


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  #2640999 24-Jan-2021 14:37
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I'm hoping this is a person who has signed in and scanned and masked up where needed. This could be very easily contained.

 
 
 
 

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  #2641000 24-Jan-2021 14:39
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GV27: I'm hoping this is a person who has signed in and scanned and masked up where needed. This could be very easily contained.

 

Yep, I wonder how many Cook Islanders have trekked up there to see family or work?


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  #2641055 24-Jan-2021 15:21
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Oblivian: Larry king has succumb today


I don't think he's well-known in NZ, but he's almost a meme on CNN. He made several cameos in popular movies.

He's very popular with conservative mid-West elderly.

Probably reached peak popularity around 2000.

Maybe it'll scare a few into thinking COVID's not a hoax.




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  #2641058 24-Jan-2021 15:56
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freitasm: Perhaps a test at day 12 with complete full isolation - not leaving room for anything at all until leaving facility, then another test three days after being released?

 

 

 

Although we don't know all the details, it likely shows another hole in border system, and why scanning and recording should have been mandatory, as our contact tracing doesn't work properly unless almost everyone does it. Currently very few are doing it. It always jumps up after an outbreak, but then drops back again as complacency occurs. . We have been lucky so far. But as a few of NZs experts have said, even though we have been lucky so far, at some stage our luck will run out, and we are a bit of a sitter with this new strain. 


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  #2641059 24-Jan-2021 16:04
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Yep - visited Queensgate Lower Hutt yesterday and today. Lots of people but saw very few people scanning the codes at stores.





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  #2641060 24-Jan-2021 16:04
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#include <standard.disclaimer>


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  #2641063 24-Jan-2021 16:21
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mattwnz:

Although we don't know all the details, it likely shows another hole in border system, and why scanning and recording should have been mandatory, as our contact tracing doesn't work properly unless almost everyone does it.



That was a very fast and seemingly incorrect assumption. And part the reason they caught it and managed very fast.

It's more people continuing holidaying/working overseas during high risk times against global advisories who have incubated longer than 14 days after seeing family in europe.

Visited multiple hotspot countries, and families. And then come back to NZ. That's not someone who's listened to advise to not travel.

14 days is advised. But not full proof. There's some going positive up to day 21

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  #2641078 24-Jan-2021 16:40
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So am i reading this right

 

She travelled to Spain and the Netherlands late last year?  Like when covid was already around overseas going mad and she thinks this is the best time to go and travel?  The update said she had been away for 4 months before returning on 30th December.  So that puts it right around the time of level 3 lockdown when she left.

 

*shakes head*

 

 

 

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This woman travelled from New Zealand to go to Europe last year and was travelling around Spain and the Netherlands for around four months. Bloomfield believes she was doing some work in Spain.

 

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  #2641079 24-Jan-2021 16:49
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Went to super today after the announcement.   Almost nobody scanning, and I was the only one masked.

 

 

 

I'd like to see shops and public transport being a little more proactive around scanning.  Even if just saying "if you could scan that would be great" at the till/driver would get a lot more people doing it i think.


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