Auckland border worker tests positive for COVID-19

Auckland: A worker at the Grand Millennium Hotel, a managed isolation facility in Auckland, has tested positive for COVID-19.

In a press conference on Thursday Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said the 24-year-old worker had tested positive after complaining of a sore throat.

An Auckland border worker has tested positive for Covid-19.Credit:JOSEPH JOHNSON/STUFF

The Grand Millennium is one of 17 government managed isolation facilities in the Auckland region. The region is also home to the quarantine facility, Jet Park Hotel.

Border and managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) workers were in group one of the NZ government’s four-stage Pfizer vaccine rollout, which began in February.

The “vast bulk” was to be completed in March, with at least one dose administered.

However, this worker has not yet been vaccinated, Bloomfield said.

According to data released by the government on Wednesday, about 71,000 people have so far received a first dose of the vaccine. But only 17,500 of those people have also received their second dose.

In March, another border worker – an Air New Zealand flight attendant – tested positive for COVID-19 after a flight from Japan the previous month.

She was moved to Jet Park Hotel shortly after testing positive.

The case did not lead to any community transmission.

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