19 Oct 2020

A new hole in New Zealand's border protection against Covid-19

From Lately, 10:18 pm on 19 October 2020

New Zealand's latest positive case of Covid-19 is a marine electronics engineer who tested positive over the weekend after working on a ship on the same day eight Filipino workers boarded it after recently passing through New Zealand's managed isolation.

They were not tested for Covid-19. Karyn speaks with epidemiologist Dr Michael Baker about 'border incursion' - the description for New Zealand's latest form of coronavirus transmission. 

Professor Michael Baker, a public health medicine specialist at the University of Otago

Photo: University of Otago