What are the signs that could give more certainty to health officials managing the latest flare-up? All of the 109 close contacts of the South Auckland family at the centre of the scare - a mother, father and daughter - tested so far have returned negative results. Contact tracers would then be able to follow that chain both backward and forward to find more close contacts and isolate any spread. What could be read into the fact that no close contacts had tested positive, even with the much more transmissible UK variant involved? "One of the interesting things here is that the daughter reported onset of symptoms before the mother.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 16, 2021 00:07 UTC