Coronavirus - New Zealand
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Further south than Waipa district:
Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins announced at the 1pm briefing that the Waikato level 3 boundary would be extended further south.
“The extension will cover the Waitomo district including Te Kūiti, as well as Waipā and the Ōtorohanga districts.”
Edit:
This will come into place at 11.59pm tonight, and this means level 3 restrictions. They will be in place until midnight Monday, and will be reviewed then.
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On the Whangārei weak-positive result announced yesterday.
This person is an Auckland resident. Public Health have made contact with this person, they had some issues making contact initially.
McElnay said the CT value of that range can mean a number of things, it could be a historical case for example. The person needs to be reswabbed to make sure. Further contact is happening today.
Surely sending someone to the persons home to get a new swab for re-test would be good given the potential for this?
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People don't get it. We have drivers crossing the border. One apparently has a sick brother in Palmie and asked his Manager if it would be OK if he spent the weekend with his brother.
My reply "only if you want to kill him" was met with bemusement and then when I spelled it out - oh shit I didn't even think of Corona.
This is a guy who gets tested every three days, is double jabbed and takes his responsibilities seriously. He wasn't trying to evade anything he simply had a brain fart.
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@hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
HAs anyone heard if they are extending the boundary to include Cambridge?
You won't be able to see the updated info until about midnight. That's what I found when looking for Hamilton on Sunday.
https://covid19.govt.nz/travel/permitted-travel-at-different-alert-levels/alert-level-boundary-map/
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Where I grew up is where the border breakers are driving through on the gravel roads. Probably where the KFC bandits were caught.
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@mikedogz said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
HAs anyone heard if they are extending the boundary to include Cambridge?
You won't be able to see the updated info until about midnight. That's what I found when looking for Hamilton on Sunday.
https://covid19.govt.nz/travel/permitted-travel-at-different-alert-levels/alert-level-boundary-map/
Map is updated on that link
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@mikedogz said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Where I grew up is where the border breakers are driving through on the gravel roads. Probably where the KFC bandits were caught.
Why wasn't the river the boundary this time? All traffic forced over Tuakau bridge?
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@crucial It changes each lockdown. The true Auckland council border was the first one, the next time was the Tuakau Bridge, then it was roughly in the middle of the district with the Port on the Waikato side. The current border is where the old Franklin district council used to end. The current border is a more natural border with the residents on the Waikato side more likely to go to Huntly/Te Kauwhata/Ngaruawahia/Raglan rather than Tuakau/Pokeno/Pukekohe.
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Fantastic...🙄
Hopefully just turns out to be a truckie who didn't get out of his truck...seemed a real lack or urgency to get hold of him though taking around 24 hours since announcing the weak positive case yesterday
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The delays on this essential worker coming up here are not good enough.
So was tested on Monday, result back Wednesday, not retested until Thursday due to not being able to get hold of the person for a re-test, no locations of interest released yet (one would hope that as an essential worker they have strict rules around stopping outside of thier intended location, and maybe they just stopped at thier destination and went home...therefore no locations of interest) as you'd have to expect they will have us move to L3 as well, but we are 4 days after the person was here, and no information....
Also, nothing around vax status, if they were wearing a mask? So frustrating.
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@crucial I didn't get that far. It wasn't clever and it was just a rant not really making any points so I gave up after 20 seconds. As satire it was about as subtle as a Greta Thunberg speech and as polished as sawdust
True, but I gave it a little longer to see if it would 'twist'. It did. To la-la land
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@jegga said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
To be fair these clowns are beyond parody now , the photo of dear leader in this article barbecueing with her coat on and all the dials turned off says more about them than that song
You need to look closer. The gas is on.
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Good news this morning for speedway fans in L2 areas with most racing due to kick off around Labour weekend. Sport NZ has released this statement this morning
“In the new Alert Level 2 rules, there is no restrictions to the number of spectators that can attend a sporting event, for example a speedway track – as long as everyone can safely stay 1 metre apart. If you are organising an event, make sure everyone records their visit.”
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@stockcar86 said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Good news this morning for speedway fans in L2 areas with most racing due to kick off around Labour weekend. Sport NZ has released this statement this morning
“In the new Alert Level 2 rules, there is no restrictions to the number of spectators that can attend a sporting event, for example a speedway track – as long as everyone can safely stay 1 metre apart. If you are organising an event, make sure everyone records their visit.”
Oh dear, the 1 metre separation will put paid to the interesting discussions between aggrieved drivers in the pits immediately after races. Will also prove difficult when allotting viewing space to interested spectators to said discussions! When does Meeanee kick off?