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The Ministry of Health today confirmed a total of 25 new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand: 23 at the border and two in the community.
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Two of today’s 25 cases are job contacts of an infected dock worker. Another eighteen are foreign fishermen who isolate themselves in Christchurch. Source: 1 NEWS
The two new community cases are workplace contacts of the dock worker who tested positive for the virus over the weekend, Dr. Ashley Bloomfield confirmed today.
Both are now isolated and contacts are being traced, and their close contacts are also isolated.
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New Zealand had 25 new infections to report today, but things are much worse elsewhere. Source: 1 NEWS
The port worker tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday and Bloomfield notified the public of this new case on Sunday. The man had worked in New Zealand ports, including Auckland and Taranaki in recent weeks.
Yesterday, in cases not related to the port worker, 11 Russian and Ukrainian fishermen who flew to New Zealand tested positive for Covid-19, and 14 other potential cases are also being investigated.
The Ministry confirmed today that another 18 of those fishermen had tested positive since yesterday, bringing the total number of Covid-19 cases at Sudima’s facility in Christchurch to 29.
The 235 fishermen were brought to New Zealand from Ukraine and Russia as critical workers by Independent Fisheries, Sealord and Maruha Nichiro.
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Dr. Ashley Bloomfield provided the Wellington update on October 21. Source: 1 NEWS
In addition to those cases, five other cases were confirmed among the newcomers today, all of whom are in isolation facilities.
Those five are made up of three people who arrived from London on October 16 and two who arrived from Jordan and Malaysia on October 17.
The total number of active cases in New Zealand isolation facilities is now 56.
The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in New Zealand so far is now 1,556.
Yesterday, labs completed 6,308 tests, bringing the total number of Covid-19 tests completed to date to 1,040,911.
Another case of Covid-19 was also confirmed in isolation Yesterday, with no new cases in the community.
MIQ HEAD ASSURES KIWIS THAT THE SYSTEMS ARE WORKING
Earlier today, Air Commodore Darryn Webb, head of Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ), told Breakfast that the detection of the cases shows that our border control systems are “working absolutely as intended.
“As I said in the past, we assume that people will cross the border with positive cases, and this is an example of that in action,” he said.
Webb said Hotel Sudima had been reserved specifically for fishing workers, that there were no other guests at the hotel, and that it was now being used as a quarantine site.
“We have been planning this operation for many weeks, and one of the precautions we observed was determining an exclusive use facility – it just didn’t seem to make sense for us to have about 230 Russian and Ukrainian fishermen with other returnees, so we have established it as a exclusive use facility for these fishermen “.
Covid-19 (file image). Source: istock.com
He said New Zealanders can be sure that the process of people landing in New Zealand and going into isolation was well executed.
“When someone comes to New Zealand, they are in a Level 4 environment from start to finish, so they are met, we have systems on board the buses and transfers to the facilities, they manifest there and in their rooms,” he said .
“We have health controls, we have social assistance, we have security systems, everyone is very aware of things like hygiene, physical separation and the need to wear PPE.
“So all of those things are the cornerstone, if you will, of why we are confident.”
