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“I don’t think it would have been appropriate to go public before 7 pm when the polls closed,” he says.
“I didn’t even have time to consider whether or not that would be consistent with the ban on what we can do on Election Day. I didn’t have time to get advice on that because the deadline was so tight.”
The Auckland harbor worker underwent a test on Friday after feeling unwell. He had been working on a ship, with an international crew on board, in New Plymouth on Wednesday.
That is now on its way to Napier. And there’s a second ship he worked on that officials are looking at.
The worker drove from Auckland to New Plymouth and back. It is not yet known if he stopped along the way.
Health CEO Ashley Bloomfield was quick to assuage concerns.
“This case has also been detected early and the risk of further transmission has been quickly contained,” he says.
Routine tests are already underway in ports and New Zealand epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker says there is no cause for alarm.
“So we have to find out what happened here and how we can prevent these episodes from happening in the future,” he says.
“But the other thing, of course, is that this shows that the system works very well and detects this case quickly and follows up.”
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says there is no need to shut down.
“There is nothing to suggest the need to change any of the restriction levels,” he says.
Meanwhile, our one-way trans-Tasmanian bubble seems to have really burst.
It was revealed that 55 passengers who traveled from New Zealand to Sydney broke the rules and traveled to Melbourne, not 17 as originally thought.
COVID-19 continues to cause problems at all borders.
