A top public health expert is calling for tougher measures to keep New Zealand Covid free, including a five-day hotel quarantine before travellers board international flights. Otago University public health professor Nick Wilson is also calling for quarantine facilities to be moved out of Auckland, saying it is putting the largest city at risk of yet another outbreak. "Pre-flight testing is really a very necessary move but it also needs to be really combined with a period of pre-flight quarantine, say in an airport hotel. He suggested the Government look at relocating managed isolation and quarantine facilities out of our most populous centre. "It would require hundreds if not thousands of workers, such as nurses, healthcare assistants, cleaners, aviation security staff, MBIE staff, hotel staff and others having to willingly move there to work.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 17, 2021 18:20 UTC