Health officials are edging closer to solving the mystery of how an Auckland engineer caught coronavirus. But to experts, he's the hero who may have saved the country from a new community outbreak by acting swiftly. He headed straight to his next job at Port Taranaki, to work on the Vanuatu-flagged ship Ken Rei. Bloomfield said crews in transit weren't routinely tested, and the ministry was now reviewing measures around ports and ship workers. "There would also be another consequence in lost revenue for the closed ports and port workers left without a job to do."

Source: New Zealand Herald October 22, 2020 05:08 UTC