17 Feb 2021

What new community COVID cases mean for alert levels

From Afternoons, 1:07 pm on 17 February 2021

Two more community cases of COVID-19 have been found at Papatoetoe High School. The cases are a brother and sister. 

The sister is a close contact of the original case detected over the weekend. Jesse speaks to Dr Siouxsie Wiles about what this means for the alert levels in place around the country that were due to expire at midnight tonight. 

Queues form outside Papatoetoe High School for Covid-19 testing on 15 January, 2021.

Photo: RNZ / Rowan Quinn