
Covid-19: Five fixes New Zealand urgently needs to make
With Delta raising the stakes, experts say it's time to drastically beef up NZ's defences.
With Delta raising the stakes, experts say it's time to drastically beef up NZ's defences.
A vaccinated health worker who tested weak positive for Covid has since tested negative.
All Managed Isolation and Quarantine facilities operate as an alert level 4 environment.
Experts call for vigilance, as symptoms from any infections would start showing now.
Alert level 2 rules will be extended for 48 hours in Wellington, Covid Response Minister Chris Hipkins said.
"At this stage there have been no specific incidents or concerns received by DHBs."
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"Drug treatment in the community is 10 to 12 times more effective than in prisons."
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"We can't eradicate it, but we can turn [Covid] into something much less threatening."
Update comes after confirmation Sydney to Wellington traveller has Delta variant.
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'Health referrals are a good thing because we want demand for drugs to decrease'.
There are no new cases of Covid-19 in the community today.
Of the infected traveller's 1752 contacts, 532 have so far returned a negative result.
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'The outcome could be a potentially fatal disease that's now preventable.'
'It's like a plague. If it's strong in one area then it begins to spread across.'
Wellington moved into alert level 2 at 6pm yesterday.
Key question remains if traveller had 'explosive' Delta variant.