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The Botany Downs KFC worker, known as Case L, who left for work shortly before testing positive for Covid-19, told the media today that she was never told to isolate herself at home despite health and the Prime Minister stated otherwise.
KFC Botany Downs closed for a deep clean. Source: 1 NEWS
Now she is asking for an apology from Jacinda Ardern, claiming that she and her family have been at the center of the online abuse, Newshub reports.
Case L is a member of a household where a student at Papatoetoe High School tested positive on February 23.
Health officials say the entire home should have been isolated while the test results were pending, yet Case L went to work on February 22 and 23 at his job at KFC.
Today, Case L told Newshub no one told him to isolate himself, and he found the Prime Minister’s comments to the contrary “annoying”.
In fact, Case L suggested that the advice he gave to his sister, the Papatoetoe High School student who was the vector of transmission in the family, was completely different.
She says her sister, Case I, received a text message from health officials on February 14 that said: “casual contacts to isolate and test, their families do not need.”
Seeing this, he went to work as usual.
After Case I tested positive, the Ministry of Health and the Director General of Health, Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, said there were several attempts to contact the family to get tested as Papatoetoe High School contacts, but it was in vain.
Case I was only evaluated as part of the period leading up to the school’s reopening, which required all staff and students to submit a negative test.
Case L also disputes this today, saying: “Where is the evidence?”
“If they tried to contact us multiple times and send us letters and stuff, where is this evidence?” she said.
She says the family has been harassed online.
“They’re calling us stupid, saying our family needs to be prosecuted, put in jail … and people say they need a few slaps on the head.”
