19 Jun 2020

Returning traveller shocked at Covid-19 border measures

From Checkpoint, 5:16 pm on 19 June 2020

A woman who's just left managed isolation at Novotel Auckland Airport says the government is lying about the adequacy of its border testing regime.

The woman, who Checkpoint has agreed not to identify, arrived home on June 4.

She says multiple people were allowed to leave the hotel without undergoing a single test for Covid-19.

That's despite the Director-General of Health claiming no one is leaving managed isolation without first returning a negative test. 

The woman told Checkpoint reporter Nick Truebridge she was gobsmacked by the lax attitude of health authorities upon her return to New Zealand.

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