Te Hiko will never forget the moment he watched his brother Nigel die via Zoom, as he lay in his hospital bed battling Covid himself. A few days later, his brother Alan died of Covid. "When my brother Nigel passed away, I actually watched him pass away on Zoom. Paul's brother Nigel, who died last year of Covid aged 54, is believed to have contracted the virus from their brother Alan, who had worked at the Americold facility in Auckland. Alan Te Hiko died a few days earlier, in Auckland's Middlemore Hospital on September 4.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 08, 2021 22:52 UTC