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Staff and patrons at an Auckland pub are being tested for Covid-19 following a visit from a person who later tested positive for the virus.
The Malt pub in Greenhithe is at the center of the situation, which has raised fears of a possible community spread of Covid-19.
The Auckland Regional Public Health Service has asked those in the pub, including the staff, between 7:30 pm and 10 pm on Friday 16 October, to isolate themselves and get tested.
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Users of Greenhithe’s The Malt were asked to isolate themselves and get tested after a person with Covid-19 visited them on October 16.
Malt’s employer who was at the pub on Friday is one of two colleagues of an Auckland harbor worker with Covid-19.
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A pop-up community testing center in the Greenhithe area will be available starting Thursday for users to test. The location and hours will be available on the ARPHS website when confirmed.
The owner of The Malt pub in Greenhithe said Stuff On Wednesday night, he and his staff had just learned of the coronavirus case.
Household members of patrons at the pub that night should also be tested and stay home if the person in the pub becomes ill or exhibits any symptoms.
“However, if people in the pub that night become ill, even after a negative test result, they should re-isolate themselves and retest,” added ARPHS.
This is an example of exposure notifications sent to users of the NZ COVID Tracer app who have been on a confirmed case of Covid-19.
The health service said that people who scanned The Malt using the NZ COVID Tracer app on Friday night should receive a notification.
On Wednesday, the Ministry of Health announced 25 new cases of Covid-19, of which two, one close and the other casual, were linked to the dock worker.
Another 18 were imported and in managed isolation in Christchurch. These people are international fishermen linked to the same group of positive cases that were reported on Tuesday.
The last three were unrelated imported cases of recent returnees.
The last group in the country, the August group from Auckland, has been regarded as “squashed” but is technically still open. All patients in this group have recovered.
The cluster will be officially closed when there are no new cases for two incubation periods after all cases complete isolation. Two incubation periods for the virus are four weeks or 28 days.
The Auckland outbreak, which is considered the largest group in the country, began after a person in his 50s, who worked at the Americold refrigerator in Mt Wellington, tested positive for Covid-19 on August 11.
More cases of the virus were detected in the worker’s colleagues and family, and from there, the group grew rapidly. Then several subgroups appeared, including the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship subgroup and the Grief Events subgroup.
In early October, the Auckland outbreak was deemed “squashed”.
