28 Apr 2020

Coronavirus: Restaurant at centre of Bluff cluster reopens

From Morning Report, 6:07 am on 28 April 2020

With country now out of Alert Level 4 and into Level 3, a Bluff restaurant which was at the centre of the country's largest Covid-19 cluster is reopening today.

A wedding at the Southland town's Oyster Cove Restaurant has been linked to 98 cases of the virus.

Oyster Cove director Ross Jackson says he has been receiving a lot of support from the Bluff community and will take tough measures to ensure everyone is safe in a takeaway only environment.

He spoke to RNZ reporter Anan Zaki.