ezbee:

 

Likely the isolation hotel, its not a perfect system with potential for mixing in smoking and exercise.
Staff testing every 2 weeks is probably too big a gap, and they need to look at rumblings re staff being overworked.

 

Testing all the staff, and retesting all the people through the hotel seems to be underway, so good chance we can get a lid on it.
The Hotel did have a number of cases of the same variant, so we shall see.

 

Kinda surprised on smoking as its a big risk factor, nicotine patches are used in Aussie, though you wont be exercising there either.
The exercise thing is problematic as there are shared corridors, lifts etc, its not really possible to assure separation all the time.

 

This person has done the right thing in a big way, scanning in and going for a test.
Considering after so many tests in the Hotel it might be the last thing you would think.
So they get thumbs up from me.

 

 

 

Staff testing at MIQ facilities is weekly at most, with some people being more often. They're currently trialing saliva testing at some places which can then be done daily.

Not all hotels are created equal - I'm aware of several large MIQ properties that have no lifts and individual A/C in each room which minimises several of the big concerns. In some Auckland properties exercise is still a daily bus trip to a park. It's for all of these reasons that Australia has never let people out of their rooms at all.

Hopefully the serology test and 2nd test due back back today will show that this is a false positive...