Coronavirus: Travellers from the UK take COVID-19 back into New Zealand after three weeks of no infections – By Sunita Patel-Carstairs and Emily Mee (Sky News) / June 16 2020
Both new cases are related to recent travel from the UK and are said to be connected.
Two new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in New Zealand – both related to recent travel from the UK – after the country went more than three weeks with no confirmed new infections.
Both women, from the same family, one in her 30s and the other in her 40s, arrived in the country on 7 June via Australia and stayed in a hotel in Auckland under managed isolation.
They were given permission to leave quarantine early and travel to the capital Wellington to attend a parent’s funeral on 13 June – before they were tested for COVID-19, director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield, told reporters.
The pair didn’t use any public facilities and didn’t have any contact with anyone else, except one family member, he said.
Before being tested in Wellington at a drive-though assessment centre as part of the approved plan, one of the women had experienced mild symptoms, while the other was symptom-free.
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