26 Mar 2021

Covid-19: Mystery MIQ transmission raises alarm

From Morning Report, 7:13 am on 26 March 2021

Fresh questions are being asked over management at MIQ hotels following the news of yet another mystery transmission.

Genome sequencing has showed a link between two returnees who stayed on different floors at the Grand Mercure in Auckland.

They arrived on separate flights, two days apart. Now one epidemiologist says its clear that people inside MIQ hotels can't safely move around and should stay in their rooms for their entire two-week stay.

RNZ's Adam Jacobson reports.