WELLINGTON New Zealand was scrambling to trace the source of its first coronavirus outbreak in more than three months, reporting 13 new community infections yesterday, after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had sought to eradicate the virus with a hard lockdown.The resurgence of Covid-19...
Ms Ardern said it was a positive sign that all 13 cases were linked back to one infected family, either via work or broader family connections, and that all were being transferred into quarantine facilities.
"I think there's been a breach inside our quarantine system, and I think, when that comes out very shortly, in a matter of maybe less than a day, we'll find out that was the case," Mr Peters told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Dr Bloomfield had raised the possibility earlier on Wednesday that the virus had arrived in New Zealand via freight, given one of the initially infected family members works in a cool store that takes imported frozen goods from overseas.Yesterday, Dr Bloomfield said that importing the virus via freight was considered"a low possibility".
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