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Covid-19: Offer to move Grand Mercure case close contacts to other MIQs criticised – Stuff.co.nz

Moving people who shared a bus with a Covid-19 case to other facilities could risk further outbreaks, an epidemiologist fears.

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An epidemiologist has criticised an offer by officials to move close contacts of a Covid-19 case at an Auckland isolation hotel to other facilities for their extended stays.
The criticism comes as 250 returnees who left the Grand Mercure since March 10 were asked to self-isolate while officials investigate the possibility of Covid-19 transmission between two guests at the central city facility.
Just over a dozen people at the hotel shared buses to and from an exercise area across town on Sunday.

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