Middlemore hospital has added abdominal pain to its list of symptoms when staff screen patients for Covid-19.
Four wards are closed at the Auckland hospital and nearly 30 staff have been stood down since the man was unknowingly admitted to a non-Covid ward on Saturday, after presenting with abdominal pain.
Māni Dunlop spoke to the President of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, Samantha Murton.