A bereaved mother who led her children's escape from an isolation facility in Hamilton to attend their father's tangi has been jailed for 14 days. The 37-year-old woman and her 18-year-old daughter were both sentenced by Judge Noel Sainsbury in the Auckland District Court this afternoon. "[This woman] couldn't believe the situation wasn't exceptional enough; so that the children could go to their father's funeral. "So she had no basis or reason to believe she had Covid-19 and perhaps a basis to believe she did not." Several people who have gone into managed isolation have returned positive tests at day 12, after returning negative tests at day three.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 27, 2020 06:11 UTC