The woman at the centre of the latest Covid scare is quite likely to have contracted the new highly-contagious variant, according to a health expert. Auckland University professor Des Gorman today told NewstalkZB it was most likely the 56-year-old Northland woman picked up the infection while she was in managed isolation at the Pullman Hotel. "It's quite likely to be one of the contagious strains and it's quite likely that she acquired this through quarantine." Whether Covid was now in the Northland community would depend on how many people she came into contact with. "The fact that she has recorded where she was will expedite the contact tracing and it needs to because frankly during the last Auckland outbreak the contact tracing was nowhere near good enough or fast enough."

Source: Otago Daily Times January 24, 2021 17:48 UTC