Photo: RNZWellington's Covid-19 cases are being allowed to exercise in an underground car park, prompting concern that MIQ workers are being put at unnecessary risk. RNZ understands to get to the underground car park people have to leave their rooms and be guided by MIQ staff, generally Defence Force soldiers, to a lift that takes them down to the car park. Rindelaub said that was a good standard, but using an underground car park for exercise was still very risky. University of Otago public health expert Professor Nick Wilson said he would not want to be anywhere near the underground car park while positive cases were there. "It sounds extremely problematic if people who are known to be positive and infectious are exercising in an underground car park with presumably pretty poor ventilation, so this seems a very unsatisfactory situation."

Source: Otago Daily Times August 31, 2021 20:56 UTC