30 Mar 2021

Reti: Exercise, smokers more likely to spread Covid in MIQ

From First Up, 5:50 am on 30 March 2021

The National Party says that only Immigration New Zealand-approved laboratories should be able to provide pre-departure Covid-19 tests for people travelling from abroad. That was one of many topics Nathan Rarere canvassed in his weekly discussion with the party's deputy leader, Shane Reti, also including the MIQ bus botch-up, the trans-Tasman travel bubble, and Carter Holt Harvey. Nathan began by asking Dr Reti what he made of the news that isolating returnees were bundled onto the same bus as someone who tested positive for Covid-19 after they'd been taking their daily exercise.