Covid 19 coronavirus: a new case in managed isolation, no new community cases

There are no new cases from the Covid community and one new case in managed isolation.

There are 75 active cases in New Zealand. The new case at MIQ came from Ireland via Qatar and tested positive on the 8th of his stay.

The Health Ministry said its investigation continues into the “day 12” case at the Grand Mercure managed isolation facility in Auckland.

Genome sequencing results showed a link between the two infected returnees at the facility.

The returnees had arrived on separate flights, two days apart, and were staying in separate rooms on different floors.

As of this morning, the ministry had contacted 235 of the 258 people who left the Grand Mercure and 167 have given negative results so far.

The ministry’s investigation into the Great Millennium worker, referred to as Case A, was ongoing.

New Zealand currently has 2,126 confirmed cases of Covid-19.

Annoyed by privacy violation

A computer error allowed Canterbury Covid-19 vaccine patients to see the personal data of hundreds of people who were booking appointments to receive the hab.

“The DHB called 50 people last night, apologized and informed them of the actions that are being taken now,” the Health Ministry said today.

“The main concern of many of those contacted was that their reserved vaccinations would be carried out as planned, which will be the case. This process of contacting people continues today. When people cannot be reached by phone, the DHB will will contact you by email.

“Understandably, a relatively small number of people were upset. Once again, the DHB apologized and also explained that the dating system remains offline until the problem is fixed and the system is thoroughly tested,” the ministry said. .

“At this stage, the external reserve problem is limited to the Canterbury DHB and the members of the frontline border worker household at that DHB who had been invited to make appointments to get vaccinated.”

Other DHBs considering public reservation systems will now wait until the system problem is resolved.

“The Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHBs are using a different version of the reservation system used in Canterbury, but access is password protected and only available to DHB staff on their internal network,” the ministry said. .

“These two DHBs are reviewing the security of their internal system in light of the problems identified in Canterbury. The DHBs did not plan to use the public website that caused the problem in Canterbury. No other DHB is using the system to make Appointments. of Ccvid vaccination, “said the ministry.

At this stage, there is no evidence of any malicious infringement, access to or sharing of this information further, and the DHB is investigating further, health officials said.

The Health Ministry said yesterday that while there was no private health information available through the reservation system, it was removed on Friday night after being available for use starting at 8 a.m. M. On the same day.

The exposed details included the people’s names, their gender, age and NHI number.

He said the details of 714 people who had signed up could potentially be viewed.