16 Dec 2020

Covid-19: Summer resurgence plan prepares for outbreak at festival

From Morning Report, 6:36 am on 16 December 2020

Rhythm and Vines is insisting it can cope if there is a Covid-19 outbreak among the 14,000 revellers expected at the festival in Gisborne.

The government has unveiled its plan for a possible resurgence of the virus over the Christmas holidays using an outbreak at a music festival or a campground as one scenario.

Campground owners say they're ready to go too but one expert says the government needs to put more focus on stopping the disease getting in at all.

Health Correspondent Rowan Quinn reports.