17 Aug 2020

Source of latest Covid-19 outbreak may never be found

From Checkpoint, 5:27 pm on 17 August 2020

The Director-General of Health insists there's been no testing failure for staff dealing with arrivals at the border and in quarantine facilities.

There are nine new cases of Covid-19 today in the community, all believed to be linked to existing clusters.

But while Dr Ashley Bloomfield says officials are confident the virus re-entered via the border, he has admitted they may never know how that happened.

Rachel Thomas reports.