New Zealand has registered its third new case of COVID-19 as quarantine breaches and other several failures have weakened the public confidence, just days after it declared itself coronavirus free.
The third case is a man in his 60s, who arrived in Auckland from Pakistan on 13th of June, via Doha and Melbourne
“Officials were contacting all passengers on the flight and have alerted overseas counterparts for the other flights,” Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of Health said.
“The man was wearing a mask on all flights and was now in a quarantine facility in Auckland”
It all comes after two women who had arrived from Britain and were given permission to leave quarantine early on compassionate grounds tested positive.
PM Jacinda Ardern on Wednesday called in the military to oversee the facilities and to manage border defences.
In response to the case of the two women, the government has suspended all exemptions to quarantine rules and said no one is to leave the isolated hotels where people are kept unless they have been tested.
Contact tracing is underway for the hundreds of people who may have come into contact with the three new cases.
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