One of Auckland’s Covid-19 community cases was not required to undergo mandatory testing in her airline catering job because government guidelines did not require it, her employer LSG Sky Chefs says. The LSG Sky Chefs spokesman said regular Covid-19 surveillance testing in this case was not mandatory because the laundry area was not considered airside by government guidelines. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday evening said the woman had been subject to fortnightly testing for Covid-19 as part of border surveillance. “It's clearly an oversight in that the virus has gotten through.”National Party Covid-19 spokesman Chris Bishop said Ardern and Bloomfield should know whether the health order covered the worker and LSG Sky Chefs. ROBERT KITCHIN/STUFF National Party Covid-19 spokesman Chris Bishop says the Government should be requiring companies to use its system to track surveillance testing of workers.

Source: Stuff February 15, 2021 00:47 UTC