Ashley Bloomfield reveals no new cases in community overnight
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Director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield, speaking with NewstalkZB's Mike Hosking, revealed there were no new cases in the community overnight. Video / Newstalk ZB
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People who used the men's toilets at Wellington Airport are being told to get tested after a new potential infection exposure site was added to the list of places visited by a Covid-infected Australian tourist.
It comes as director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield revealed there were no new cases of Covid in the community overnight.
The latest addition to the locations of interest involves the men's toilets on the first level at the southern end of the domestic concourse of the airport.
Anyone who used the public bathroom between 9.15 - 9.30 am on June 21 is being asked to stay home and get a test around day 5. If that test is negative they are asked to self-monitor for Covid-19 symptoms for 14 days.
Wellington is into its second day at level 2, which remains in force until 11.59pm on Sunday, following no positive results yesterday after 2100 tests across the region.
It was important to act early and decisively to get ahead of any outbreak, particularly one connected to a much more contagious variant, Bloomfield said.
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Health officials are still to learn if genome results of the Sydneysider who holidayed in Wellington over the weekend are the more contagious Delta variant.
It was taking longer to get the genome sequencing results for the infected Sydney man as staff in the laboratory in Australia were unwell, Bloomfield said.
Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins earlier said the Government was working on the basis that the infected man had the more deadly variant.
ESR was now also carrying out daily tests on water samples from the Wellington region. The Health Ministry said so far nothing of concern had been detected.
Yesterday New South Wales health officials confirmed an epidemiological link of the infected tourist to the Bondi cluster, providing reassurance the person did not contract Covid in Wellington.
The Health Ministry said four initial close contacts - two couples from Palmerston North and Tauranga - who were previously identified were isolating, following public health advice, and had all returned negative test results.
So far, 420 people have been identified as contacts – of those, 167 have been tested, 15 have returned a negative result, and the remaining were still waiting for results.
The ministry urged Wellingtonians to check locations of interest.
People who had been at these locations at the relevant time should immediately isolate at their home or accommodation and contact Healthline for advice on testing.
Experts said it was likely anyone who had caught Covid from the tourist would start to show signs of infection from today.
Meanwhile, the Government yesterday extended the pause on flights to New Zealand from Sydney for a further 12 days, following the four community cases in New South Wales that were not linked to the existing outbreak.
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