19 Aug 2021

Michael Baker on growing Delta outbreak

From Nine To Noon, 9:10 am on 19 August 2021
Professor Michael Baker

Professor Michael Baker Photo: Supplied

Health officials are expecting more cases will have been detected in Auckland's outbreak overnight, and will be briefed once the results are back later this morning. Ten community cases have been identified so far. Three more cases were revealed last night, two of them young people linked to the first group of seven.The third is a woman in her 60s with no connection to the others but a link to the border. The list of places of interest in Auckland and Coromandel now sits at almost 70 and includes shopping malls, bars, cinemas, supermarkets, a large secondary school, a church and Sky City Casino. Potentially thousands of people are now considered contacts. Susie speaks with Otago University Professor of Public Health, epidemiologist, Michael Baker.