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New Zealand reports first case of coronavirus in community in months
New Zealand has reported its first coronavirus case outside of a quarantine facility in more than two months, although there is no immediate evidence the virus is spreading in the community.
Key points:
- The woman twice tested negative for coronavirus while in hotel quarantine
- Authorities are looking into whether she caught the virus from another returning traveller
- Pressure is growing on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to vaccinate the population
Director-general of Health Ashley Bloomfield said the infected woman was a 56-year-old who recently returned from Europe and had quarantined at Auckland’s Pullman Hotel.
Like other returning travellers, she had spent 14 days in quarantine and twice tested negative before she returned home on January…
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