Health Minister David Clark and director general of health Ashley Bloomfield are fronting up to MPs this morning following the border failures revealed last week. Health Minister David Clark and Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield. And work is continuing to contact all of the 2159 people who left managed isolation facilities other than the Novotel Ellerslie between June 9 and June 16. These people should have all been tested before they left, but Bloomfield said yesterday they had simply been "offered" a test. Air New Zealand crew would be regularly tested, Clark said, but he could not say whether air crew from non-New Zealand airlines flying from hotspots such as India or the United States would be tested.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 23, 2020 23:26 UTC