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Covid-19: Genome sequencing links first Christchurch community case to fishermen – Stuff.co.nz

A female health worker’s Covid-19 infection has exactly the same genome sequence as that of five fishermen in the Christchurch facility. So they are not leaving…

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Russian and Ukrainian fishermen will stay in managed isolation and quarantine in Christchurch until at least Friday after two health workers who were in contact with them contracted Covid-19.
And they wont leave until authorities get to the bottom of how two health workers contracted the virus.
The Ministry of Health said the further delay was a precautionary measure that would be reviewed as investigations continued into exactly how the two health workers picked up the virus.
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