The Waikato District Mayor says it is not acceptable that a man was bailed from locked down Auckland to an alert level 2 area, where community Covid-19 cases have now been discovered.
Three cases have been confirmed in the Firth of Thames household where the man spent more than a week on electronically monitored bail.
The cases were discovered after the man returned to prison in Auckland, and was found to be infected.
Mayor Allan Sanson told Morning Report the man should not have been sent across the border.
"I would have thought if you were bailing somebody you would have bailed them into Auckland, and not out of the Auckland area."
Two of the new cases are children who went to Mangatangi School and the third is an adult.
