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Dan Cook / RNZ
The Grand Millennium Hotel in Auckland.
A worker at a managed isolation facility who tested positive for Covid-19 had received a dose of the vaccine, according to Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins.
On Monday night, the Health Ministry announced that the MIQ (Managed Isolation and Quarantine) worker at the Grand Millennium Hotel had tested positive for the virus.
The Ministry has yet to release any locations of interest in its statement, nor has its list of contact tracing locations been updated.
But Hipkins said there are very few locations of interest in connection with the case and the situation appears low-risk.
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He said the border worker had received at least one dose of the vaccine and that the case was detected with a swab test.
Hipkins cautioned that the vaccine took a while to become effective and did not necessarily stop the infection.
The worker and his family are currently isolated at home, as the government has yet to make an official announcement on whether the group will be transferred to a quarantine facility.
But in response to questions about why the case was self-isolating, a staff member from the government’s Covid-19 Facebook page said: “This is a decision made by the local health medical officer based on personal circumstances and needs. specific to households. They may still be transferred to a quarantine facility. “
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At the end of the Covid-19 alert level 4, those who lost their jobs were more likely to feel depressed and lonely, and people in essential roles were more stressed and angry.
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 that while many MIQ workers had received their first dose, many had not yet received their second. dose as it had to be administered. at least three weeks after the first.
When asked about the case in Tuesday’s media about the housing package, Prime Minister Jacinda Arden said she would not answer questions about the Covid-19 cases, but said the cases related to the MIQ facilities are generally contained and manageable.
He directed questions about this to Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, who will appear at 1 pm to provide an update.
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.
Also on Monday, the Health Ministry announced eight new cases of Covid-19, all in managed isolation.
