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Rosewood Rest Home and Hospital is the deadliest group in the country with 10 Covid-19 related deaths.
The most recent case of Canterbury coronavirus, a nurse in her 20s, is related to the Rosewood group and comes after a week with no new cases in the region.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Health (MOH) said the nurse was working at a care center for the elderly in Christchurch.
Dr. Ramon Pink, medical health officer for the Canterbury District Board of Health, later confirmed that she was linked to the Rosewood Nursing Home Group, the nation’s deadliest group associated with 10 deaths, representing more than half of the national figure.
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Monday’s update was provided by Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, Director General of Health.
Pink said no further information will be provided to protect the person’s privacy.
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The Ministry of Health spokesman said the woman was at home isolating. Two close contacts had been identified and were also isolated.
Prior to this most recent case, a man in his 20s from the Canterbury DHB area tested positive for coronavirus on April 24.
Three other staff members tested positive for Covid-19 regarding the Rosewood Rest Home and Hospital group approximately three weeks ago.
Two infected staff members had been working at Burwood Hospital in the GG ward, where 20 Rosewood dementia patients were relocated on April 6. Seven of those patients died of coronavirus. The third CDHB staff member helped move residents to Burwood.
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A nurse in her 20s, who worked at a senior care facility in Christchurch, was classified as a confirmed case of Covid-19 on Friday.
An investigation into how CDHB staff became ill with Covid-19 found that the staff, busy moving residents from Rosewood to Burwood, had not changed their PPE often enough.
“Wet masks are believed to be the source of the rape. Some staff members reported that their PPE had become damp with the physical exertion that occurred for a few hours that day,” CDHB Incident Controller Dra previously said. Sue Nightingale.
Following the finding, Auditor General John Ryan announced that he had agreed with the ministry to independently review PPE management during the pandemic response.
Monday was the first time in 49 days that a new case of coronavirus had not been reported in New Zealand.
As of Monday, there were 1,487 cases of coronaviruses nationwide. Of these, 1,276 have recovered and four remain in hospital.
