8 Sep 2021

Covid-19: New Covid symptom added to hospital watchlist

From Midday Report, 12:42 pm on 8 September 2021

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.