Photo / Otago University of WellingtonThere are concerns people who travel from Auckland while sick could be putting the rest of the country at risk. University of Otago epidemiologist Prof Michael Baker said people should only be travelling inter-regionally for exceptional reasons, and not travelling at all if they were sick. There were 121 swabs taken in the South on Sunday and 810 taken on Monday. In comparison, there were 332 swabs taken on Monday last week. A Ministry of Health spokesman said the most common reason for travel across the Auckland boundary was for business or work.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 02, 2021 18:48 UTC