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A worker at an Auckland isolation facility tested positive for Covid-19.
The new case, in a worker at the Grand Millennium Hotel, was announced by the Health Ministry in a statement Monday night.
“The information available indicates that the worker is asymptomatic,” the statement said.
“More investigations are taking place tonight.
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“The managed isolation worker and members of his immediate family are isolating themselves at their home in Auckland tonight.”
“Additional testing and whole genome sequencing are currently being organized.”
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The Ministry did not disclose locations of interest in its statement, nor was its list of contact tracing locations updated.
Dan Cook / RNZ
A managed isolation worker at the Grand Millenium Hotel in Auckland tested positive for Covid-19.
Responding to a series of questions about the vaccination status of the case, a staff member of the government’s Covid-19 Facebook page said it was not yet known whether they had received a dose.
However, the staff member said that while many MIQ (controlled isolation and quarantine) workers had received their first dose, many had yet to receive their second dose as it had to be administered at least three weeks after the first.
The government staff member reiterated that the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine had been shown to be 95 percent effective against symptomatic Covid-19, one week after receiving the second of the two doses.
Another response on the same page said that the worker would likely be counted as an imported case “because most likely it was detected through their work at MIQ.”
The staff member also said: “Contact trackers are working through the case to determine if there are locations of interest. We will have more information tomorrow ”.
Some members of the public questioned the decision to allow the worker and their household to self-isolate at home, rather than transfer them to a quarantine facility.
A staff member of the government’s Covid-19 Facebook page said the decision was made by the local health medical officer based on the households’ specific personal circumstances and needs.
“They can still be transferred to a quarantine facility. We will share more updates when we receive them, ”they said.
Earlier Monday night Things reported that returnees at a nearby Auckland isolation hotel, the Grand Mercure, who shared a bus to an exercise area with a positive Covid-19 case, have had their stay extended.
