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The new Covid-19 community case is a staff member working at Sudima Hotel near Christchurch Airport. (File photo)
A supermarket in Christchurch underwent a deep cleaning overnight after it was visited by the city’s new Covid-19 community case.
The case, announced Monday night by the Health Ministry, is a staff member working at a facility in Christchurch where international sailors are in isolation and administered quarantine, understood as the Sudima Hotel, near the Christchurch airport. .
Countdown Security General Manager Kiri Hannifin said the person visited his store on Colombo St in Sydenham between 11:30 am and 12:30 pm on Sunday, November 1.
She said Countdown was notified Monday night of the positive case visiting the store. The supermarket was closed for a deep cleaning overnight. It was expected to reopen on Tuesday.
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Hannafin said the positive case was a great example of why it was important to use the government’s Covid tracking app.
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Russian fishing crews believed to be at the center of a covid outbreak at an isolation facility tested negative and spent fourteen days isolated in their own homes before boarding a charter flight to New Zealand.
All store workers had been called in and briefed on the situation, and Countdown was offering support to its workers as deep cleaning could be “quite stressful” for some, he said.
The person’s visit to Countdown on Sunday morning is at odds with the schedule provided by the Health Ministry, as they said the positive case had been isolated in their home since Saturday, when they developed symptoms.
The Ministry has been contacted for further comment.
The positive community case was evaluated as part of routine testing for staff at the facility and returned a negative test on Thursday, October 29. On Saturday, they developed symptoms. They looked for a new test on Sunday and received a positive result on Monday.
It is not clear why the positive case remains isolated at home.
Figures from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment show that the six Christchurch MIQ facilities are currently overcapacity by 52 points. The city’s MIQ facilities have a total capacity of 1,092.
More details of the new case and the actions taken in response will be provided at the 1:00 p.m. press conference on Tuesday.
The first of the international sailors, who were due to complete their administered isolation on Tuesday morning, will have their administered isolation extended for at least 24 hours as an additional precautionary measure.
Those precautionary measures have included additional tests, up to four tests for some people, and an already prolonged stay in controlled isolation.
The new community case is the first on the South Island since late July, when a person who later tested positive for Covid-19 in South Korea visited Christchurch.
The Health Ministry said 31 international sailors had tested positive in controlled isolation so far.
The Sudima Hotel is being used exclusively by Russian and Ukrainian fishermen, who arrived on a charter flight paid for by three large fishing companies.
There are 235 of the men in the Sudima Hotel. The first cases at the facility were confirmed on October 20, when the facility closed.
The sailors were brought into the country to work on fishing boats run by Sealord, Independent Fisheries, and Maruha Nichiro. The three companies are covering the costs of the quarantine, which is expected to be around $ 1 million.
