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The father of the groom connected to the Bluff wedding group died of coronavirus.
Chrisanthos (Christo) Tzanoudakis, 87, died at Wellington Hospital on April 10, becoming New Zealand’s third Covid-19 related death. Since then, two more people have died from the virus.
Public Health Director Dr. Caroline McElnay confirmed Sunday that a man in his 80s had died Friday at Wellington Regional Hospital.
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A large tent in front of the Wellington Hospital Emergency Department.
Tzanoudakis, a widower and father of two children, became ill for the first time on March 26 and was admitted to the hospital two days later.
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McElnay declined to identify the known group with which the man was linked, but CEO of Health Ashley Bloomfield confirmed the connection to the Bluff wedding group at a press conference on Sunday.
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A sign at the Bluff entrance.
Tzanoudakis had lived in Wellington for 50 years after emigrating from Crete and was co-founder of the New Zealand Association of Cretans.
His funeral would be held on Tuesday.
Sources have confirmed that Tzanoudakis was the groom’s father at Bluff’s wedding on March 21.
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The Oyster Cove restaurant, at Stirling Point in Bluff, was the venue for a wedding on March 21, before the national shutdown entered.
Both the bride and groom, and many of their 70 guests, felt bad in the days and weeks that followed.
The bride who Things He agreed not to name, rejected an interview request on Tuesday, but previously denied that anyone had come from abroad for the wedding.
“We feel a lot of responsibility, but they have all been really reassuring,” he said in an interview on Wednesday.
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The wedding was held four days before the national shutdown was imposed, at a time when groups of less than 100 were allowed to mingle.
The wedding party included an Air New Zealand flight attendant, understood as a relative of the groom, who was the first to become ill.
The man who Things approached for comment, flew into the country a few days before the wedding. At the time, the cabin crew were not required to self-insulate unless they were not well.
The wedding ceremony was held at Invercargill before taking guests to the Oyster Cove restaurant in Bluff, about 25 minutes away, for the reception.
The bride is originally from Waitomo in Waikato, and the city has reported several cases of coronavirus.
She said before Things their wedding was beautiful, with the “well-educated crowd” enjoying a Maori and Greek flavor at the reception, which ended around 10:30 p.m.
The next day a garden party was held at the couple’s Invercargill home.
A source said the stewardess became ill that day, complaining of a sore throat. He tested positive for Covid-19 four days later.
The Bluff group, with 86 confirmed cases as of Monday, is the largest in the country, according to the Ministry of Health.
