Covid 19 coronavirus: the most recent information of the case of the Ministry of Health is revealed

The Ministry of Health will provide the most recent information on the country’s Covid-19 cases at 1:00 p.m. today.

It comes after a worker at an Auckland quarantine facility tested positive for Covid-19 and was reported to the ministry on Friday.

The ministry says that because the person works at the facility and is not a returnee, it is considered a community case.

The person has been tested regularly as part of routine testing for facility personnel, the last time a swab was taken on November 3 and it tested negative on November 4.

The staff member developed symptoms yesterday and was re-examined. That test came back positive, the ministry said.

People in contact with the worker are being tracked, isolated and tested.

The Auckland Regional Public Health Service contacted two Auckland companies and notified them that the worker visited their facilities during his infectious period.

A push notification has been sent through the NZ Covid Tracer to everyone who scanned at these businesses at the relevant time.

The ministry said in a statement that managed isolation workers underwent regular testing.

As in other recent cases, this worker was promptly tested as soon as symptoms were noticed. Early case identification coupled with quick contact tracing helps stop any spread of the virus.

Auckland’s Mezze Bar and a bottle shop on Queen St were the two businesses the man had been in when he was infected.

Anyone at the Mezze Bar between 11 a.m. M. And the 1 p. M. Thursday is considered casual contact. They should watch for symptoms and get tested if they feel unwell, ARPHS said.

An ARPHS spokesperson said the person ate dinner alone and no close contacts had been identified at the restaurant.

The case also went to a Liquor.Com bottle store on Queen St on Thursday for 15 minutes around 1.30pm.

All people who visited around this time between 1:00 p.m. M. And 2:00 p.m. M. They were also casual contacts and should be on the lookout for symptoms, the spokesperson said.

“Close contacts of the case at home and at work have been identified and all are self-isolating and are in the process of being tested.”

Mezze Bar owner Sally Hindmarsh said she was contacted by health officials just before 7 p.m. with the news.

“I thought it was a prank call at first, so I called them and asked them to email me.”

Once he realized that it wasn’t a joke, his reaction was one of dismay.

Hindmarsh said there were people at about six tables, so he immediately told them that there had been one person at the bar the day before who had since tested positive. Then I’d close the tapas bar and spend the rest of the evening doing a deep cleaning.

“We are very, very attentive to our cleaning process and everything will be fine by tomorrow.”

He said he was not very busy during the time the person visited yesterday and the advice for anyone who was there, including six staff members, was to get tested if they were worried or started showing any symptoms.

The ARPHS spokeswoman said that people who scanned the NZ Covid-19 Tracer app at Mezze Bar or Liquor.Com during these hours should receive a notification, confirming that they were there around the same time as the case.

Users and staff should be on the lookout for symptoms of the virus for the next 14 days. If they develop symptoms, they should call Healthline on 0800 358 5453 or their GP and get tested.

Symptoms of Covid-19 are new or worsening cough, sore throat, runny nose, loss of sense or smell, or fever.

This is the seventh time, and probably the eighth, in just over three months, that Covid-19 has been transmitted from inside an isolation or managed quarantine (MIQ) facility to the community.

The others are Rydges’ maintenance worker, the Jet Park nurse, the overseas returnee who caught Covid from the lid of a shared dumpster and tested positive after leaving MIQ, the port engineer, and the two nurses. of Sudima. It is also likely that the August group came from an MIQ facility, although there is no evidence.

Infection prevention and control measures have been audited twice and are currently being reviewed by Deputy Health Minister Ayesha Verrall, an infectious disease specialist, in light of recent cases among border workers.