Auckland University associate professor and microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles reckons there are too many unknowns about an infectious truck driver's movements and activities for the Waikato and Bay of Plenty communities to rest easy. Foodstuffs has confirmed a delivery driver visited a number of their stores across Hamilton, Cambridge and Tauranga. Three new locations of interest were added to the Ministry of Health list on Friday morning, all in Tauranga after the Auckland truck driver, who later tested positive for Covid-19, drove there for work. The situation was also a perfect illustration of why the rest of the country outside of Auckland should not be pushed down to Alert Level 1. As long as everyone does their part to reduce the risk - everyone wears a mask, everyone keeps track of their movements - then the risk reduces.

Source: Stuff September 17, 2021 06:11 UTC