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New Zealand is investigating how the new virus strain could have spread inside hotel quarantine
New Zealand is trying to figure out how someone in hotel quarantine, who tested negative twice to the virus, seemingly caught the more virulent South African strain of COVID-19 in the last days before being released.
Key points:
- A woman in New Zealand tested positive for COVID-19 10 days after leaving hotel quarantine
- Professor Shaun Hendy says the case is a message that NZ and Australia should be “upping their game” when it comes to hotel quarantine
- Authorities in New Zealand have not yet identified how the woman caught the virus
Contact tracing is underway for approximately 30 venues the woman visited after leaving hotel quarantine in Auckland, before she tested positive 10 days later.
New Zealand authorities are trying to determine how the…
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