The Covid-19 community case in Northland is the South African strain, Covid recovery minister Chris Hipkins says. The community case - a 56-year-old woman who lives south of Whangarei - was in managed isolation in the Pullman Hotel. Ministry couldn't contact all businesses that community case visitedBloomfield said yesterday that all businesses where the community cases have visited would be contacted before a full list of locations would be published. Woman's husband and hairdresser test negativeThe woman's husband has tested negative, Hipkins said this morning, as had another close contact. After getting a negative tests on January 2 and 10 before leaving.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 24, 2021 23:48 UTC