it seems he/she was just released after clearing 14 days in MIQ, so interested what happened.

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

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-officials-responding-to-probable-community-case-in-northland/UKXYNUTBHCIKG4DZ2W5NQVSW3A/

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."

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.

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?

Oblivian: Larry king has succumb today

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. 

Yep - visited Queensgate Lower Hutt yesterday and today. Lots of people but saw very few people scanning the codes at stores.

News conference 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p2D8qBz1p4 

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.

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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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.