How did the Government so badly botch its border testing promise? READ MORE:* Coronavirus: The Covid-19 border testing saga that's going septic amid ministers' muddled accounts* Coronavirus: Judith Collins claims quarantine workers wanted Covid-19 tests but couldn't get them* Coronavirus: Jacinda Ardern on border testing: 'It was what we had instructed'Ricky Wilson/Stuff Security guards outside the Rydges Hotel in Auckland, where a maintenance worker contracted Covid-19. On Wednesday morning, Air Commodore Darryn Webb, who is in charge of the MIQ system, indicated testing was voluntary and widespread testing was not pursued. What we were of the view of [was] that asymptomatic testing wasn't necessarily going to conclude anything categorical either way," Webb told TVNZ. Hence that may have be a factor in the delay with the implementation of the routine asymptomatic testing of all personnel," he told Newsroom.

Source: Stuff August 20, 2020 19:48 UTC