9 Nov 2020

Covid-19: Bloomfield explains Defence Force workers' contact

From Checkpoint, 5:42 pm on 9 November 2020

Online meeting attendance only is likely to be the new advice from the DG of health when it comes quarantine workers catching up with their colleagues after a Defence Force employee infected someone else during a face to face work meeting.

There are four new Covid-19 cases in managed isolation today, but none in the community.

Two NZDF workers earlier tested positive for the virus. One is a worker at Auckland's Jet Park quarantine facility.

The second person apparently caught the virus at a meeting with the MIQ worker. Case B then flew back to Wellington on NZ-457 on Thursday evening, creating a web of contacts. They were not wearing a mask.

Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield explains how much contact NZDF workers have with infected returnees.