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There are two new cases of coronavirus in managed isolation facilities in New Zealand.
One is a newcomer case of managed isolation and the other is a recently identified landmark case, the Health Ministry announced on Wednesday.
The new case arrived from Singapore on October 31 and tested positive around the third day. They are now in quarantine at an Auckland facility.
The other, a landmark case, arrived in New Zealand on October 18 from Japan. They tested positive around day 12.
Five previous cases recovered on Wednesday, bringing the total number of active cases to 73.
As of Tuesday, the ministry’s labs completed 7,171 tests for Covid-19, bringing the total number of tests completed to date to 1,113,739.
The new cases come after a second health worker working at the Sudima Hotel in Christchurch, where 235 Russian and Ukrainian fishermen are in controlled isolation, tested positive.
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The nurses union wants an urgent overhaul of how Covid-19 isolation hotels are run, and says staff is becoming increasingly anxious and fearful. It comes after a second health worker at Hotel Sudima tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday.
They were both working in the quarantine wing of the hotel. The wing houses 31 of the sailors infected with the virus.
It was also later revealed that the second case had visited the chemical warehouse in a Christchurch shopping center on Friday.
Genome sequencing results released Wednesday linked Christchurch’s first community Covid-19 case since late July with fishermen.
Chief Health Officer Dr. Ashley Bloomfield said RNZ on Wednesday the health worker had the exact same genomic sequence as the five fishermen she had already tested.
The sailors were due to leave the facility on Tuesday, but their stay was extended until Friday as an additional precautionary measure following new community cases.
A second group was also expected to isolate themselves in Sudima, but they may not enter the country until the first group has been cleared and a deep cleaning of the facility has taken place, Bloomfield said previously.
