The man who arrived from India on July 3 and, as is the rules, went straight into managed isolation at the Stamford Plaza Hotel. On Tuesday evening he left the hotel without permission, slipping through a gap in the fencing and evading security staff. When asked why he felt the could leave the hotel, he said several times: "No-one told me anything". The man refused to speak about whether he felt he had put the public at risk by leaving the hotel before he hung up on the Herald. Officials are still piecing together CCTV footage to work out the man's movements between the Countdown supermarket and the hotel.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 08, 2020 23:37 UTC