A Far North District Councillor is pleading for the women who travelled through Northland after crossing the Auckland border to open up about where they have been.
Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has said a woman who had travelled to Northland with another woman who tested positive for Covid-19 will be interviewed this morning.
Dr Bloomfield said the woman was showing symptoms of Covid 19 when she was found by the police last night, and has been tested with results due this morning.
She is understood to have spent two to three days in Northland - but has not co-operated with officials on locations of interest.
Far North District Councillor Kelly Stratford told Morning Report the public is relying mostly on rumours to determine where the two women might have been.
She is appealing for the women to reveal more, and spare Northland from further uncertainty and suffering.
"I want them to find it in themselves to share the locations that they've been in, to just help get rid of the uncertainty that we are experiencing up here."
Stratford said Northlanders are very worried.
"We've got families trying to have their tests but some people can't travel, authorities are working to help get testing more widespread, but everybody's just very fearful."
She wants there to be consequences if they don't open up.
"If they're not going to speak, which it's in their right not to speak out, throw the book at them because it has put a lot more economic pressure on our region it is making people's mental health worse."
Northland is in alert level 3 until at least Thursday due to uncertainty in the region.
