There is a new community case of Covid-19, director general of health Ashley Bloomfield says. New Plymouth tripOn Wednesday, October 14, he was in New Plymouth working at a ship on the port. Close contacts from his work there are being scoped - mostly people on the ship he worked on. "In this case we have found a case very early on ... we were able to identify and isolate all the close contacts within a matter of hours. Asked if there was any consideration of regional lockdown, including New Plymouth, Bloomfield said there wasn't.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 17, 2020 23:12 UTC