3 Nov 2020

Covid-19: Cantabrians queue for testing after community case

From Checkpoint, 5:18 pm on 3 November 2020

Cantabrians have been streaming into testing centres, following the emergence of a community case of Covid-19.

A health worker at the Sudima Hotel, which operating as both a quarantine and managed isolation facility, has tested positive.

That's the hotel housing the Russian and Ukrainian fishing crews - dozens of whom have also contracted Covid-19.

Health authorities say the worker self isolated as soon as they developed symptoms, but a supermarket has been deep cleaned and a Christchurch school put on alert.

Eleisha Foon has the details.