The 56-year-elderly person went around parts of Northland and visited 30 organizations more than nine days while unwittingly having Covid.
Coronavirus Response Minister Chris Hipkins revealed to Morning Report that the outcomes for the lady’s significant other and stylist have since returned negative.
“So that is some uplifting news to begin the day.
“Her better half would without question be her nearest contact – that returning negative is a decent sign thus we’ll realize more as the day unfurls regarding what the general danger of this case is.”
He said the lady had six close contacts altogether so they are for the most part confining while test results come through and other easygoing contacts who have been in a similar spot simultaneously are viewed as “easygoing in addition to” contacts, who are being approached to segregate in the wake of stepping through exams.
Hipkins said it very well may be as long as 48 hours before there’s sufficient data to settle on any decisions on changing alarm levels.
He is cheerful genome sequencing will be finished today to decide the wellspring of the case.
He commended the lady for utilizing the Covid Tracer application and limiting her developments and close contacts since leaving oversaw confinement.
He safeguarded the time it took to deliver the names of the relative multitude of organizations included. Yesterday was distributed at 7.30pm after the service reached them all. In the past it had caused alert when the media had reached a few organizations before they realized they had been visited by a Covid case, Hipkins said.
Longer stays in detachment
He said before Christmas the public authority saw whether longer isolate periods and self-isolate at home may be legitimized.
“The guidance around then was that wouldn’t be supported – presently clearly we hold that under survey.”
On the off chance that the wellspring of the infection indicated it had a long hatching period, in the event that it had been brought back from abroad, they may have to have one more gander at changes to MIQ.
On the off chance that it was an aftereffect of cross-tainting inside the disengagement office, specialists would take a gander at fixing this.
In excess of 100,000 individuals had experienced the framework up until now, Hipkins said.
“Not one of them has along these lines taken Covid-19 out into the local area with them.”
He said a more extended isolate period would be an alternative in particular if the wellspring of the case end up being from abroad.
“There hasn’t been a prominent increment … we’re not seeing a major flood in the quantity of cases coming through.”
There was a lawful commitment on the public authority to permit New Zealanders to get back.
The approach was to attempt to keep planeloads of individuals together in oversaw disengagement since transmission inside planes has been an issue.
“In the event that you were detaching out the individuals who came from the US, the UK or South Africa and afterward isolated them out from others you may conceivably expand the danger.
“The most secure activity is to keep each planeload together on the grounds that we realize that is one of wellsprings of disease is simply the plane excursion.”
-RNZ
