Look: Dr. Ashley Bloomfield talking to Saturday. Credits: Video – Newshub; Picture – Getty
There are seven new COVID-19s in the community.
Aucklanders are under warning point 3 until August 26. The rest of the country is at alert point 2.
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5.30pm – A reminder that Auckland residents don’t have to go to a store to buy a lottery ticket for Saturday’s big draw.
“While there’s an incredible rumor about a jackpot that needs to be won, protecting our network is the most important thing right now,” says Marie Winfield, Chief Communications Officer at Lotto NZ.
“If you plan to purchase your price ticket at the store this afternoon, stay fit and protect in your brain and follow COVID-19 guidelines.”
With the existing alert grades in place, Lotto NZ encourages consumers to purchase tickets online through MyLotto and the app,
“Sales are peaking after 5pm. I cannot stress enough the importance of buying your price ticket as soon as possible. If you need to get a price ticket for tonight’s draw, now is the time to buy it,” winfield said.
4:55 p.m. – An Auckland councillor is asking citizens to stay at home and stay there after it was noted that many “went to the beaches and parks in the area and ignored the instructions at alert point 3, as they and their families are at risk.”
The chairman of the Parks, Arts, Community and Events Committee, Alf Filipaina, said it is “disappointing” to hear a large number of people flock to popular places despite the regulations of alert points 3.
“We’re living in amazing spring weather in Auckland this weekend, but that’s no excuse for circumventing the rules,” Filipaina said.
“The result is that other people’s giant teams should not keep their distance safely, putting pressure on very limited services, such as car parks and public baths, which we can offer under this level of alertness. It is also vital that our staff must manage visitors and themselves safely,” he says.
Despite the closure of playgrounds and skating, he said that “we continue to hear that playgrounds are full of children, families use appliances in the park and the park benches are all used.”
Muriwai Beach is one of the spaces affected by this behavior, he said.
Auckland City Council has won reports of car queues of more than 2 km in Muriwai Beach, an influx of other people’s restrooms, padlocks and chains cut into closed doors (e.g. on Coast Rd in Muriwai, Cornwallis and Scenic Dr in Wait-kere Ranges).
“The barriers are in a position to explain why and when visitors damage public property, they only break the rules, but they break the law,” Filipaina says.
You can find out more here.
4:30 p.m. – The Minister of Health explained on Saturday how a school in Auckland without a showed case of COVID-19 was despite all the mentioned in Friday’s daily pandemic briefing.
Executive Health Director Ashley Bloomfield said one of the thirteen new cases reported that day connected to Pakuranga College, which took the school by surprise.
The Ministry of Health later stated that there is a “causal link”, not a case shown, and no one at the school at risk.
For more information here.
4 pm: Tauranga port tests all personnel to detect COVID-19. Anyone who has been on site since 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, July 21 will have to be tested under a new order of fitness.
This includes all those who worked at the port, adding maritime agents, stevedores, drivers picking up or delivering goods, contractors, suppliers of goods and services, classification societies, workers from government companies, and any team members who may have landed.
Tauranga port general manager Mark Cairns said in a statement that the port was operating with the local DHB to provide on-site test facilities.
“Since this order is likely to be up to 6,000 people, it will take us some time to analyze logistics. We are grateful for the patience and understanding of the port users and will provide more data as soon as possible.”
Testing all personnel will exclude the port as the source for the new New Zealand cluster.
3:55 p.m. Ruapehu Alpine Lifts (RAL) said Whanganui DHB told the company on Friday that a showed case of COVID-19 from the Auckland cluster had visited Troa skiing on Sunday, August 9.
Two RAL members self-aalysed and tested negative for COVID-19.
“Public fitness officials have indicated that the interactions any member of our staff has had with this user does not meet the definition of ‘close contact’,” said Chief Executive Jono Dean.
“The previous user also visited the Whakapapa ski domain on Saturday, August 8, but was thought to be presymptomatic and unlikely to be infectious at the time, because of this, the DHB reported that there was no explanation for worrying or acting. beyond our point 2 protocols. existing ones, which, of course, we stick to and ask mountain visitors to follow as well.”
Dean says a thorough cleaning is being done and that the ski spaces remain open.
“We have won direct orders from the Ministry of Health and Wanganui DHB that if our team does not show symptoms, they can paint safely, so we remain convinced that we are following the practices.
“We will inspire all staff to wear a mask with the same goal of preventing any imaginable spread.”
3.45pm – Greens Chl’e Swarbrick has tips for dressing up in a mask.
“To wear [Trevor Mallard’s wise words], treat your mask like your underwear. Do not touch or adjust it in public, do not use other people’s, make sure it is clean, if it rains, replace it and do not. Go to the command “.
3.30pm – Otahuhu Elementary School in Auckland says a COVID-19 con “attended our school.”
“Some young people and people close to them may wish to be examined and isolated. Anyone who has been near this user will be contacted as ‘close contact’ this afternoon (Saturday, August 15)”.
Those who had the same elegance as the individual will be in touch and will want to isolate themselves or be evaluated, according to the school.
“If we touch them, we’ll let them know what the next steps are. We ask for your understanding at this time, as we work with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, our board of directors and the school community. “
3:20 p.m. – The 75th anniversary of the end of World War II held on Saturday in Pukeahu, Wellington, in the presence of the Governor-General, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Defence and the Leader of the Opposition.
Due to the alert level settings, the audience was unable to attend.
3:10 p.m. – $50 million is in play with Lotto on Saturday night. There are queues at the dairy on Auckland’s north coast, with players physically distant, but not all wear masks. Players can purchase a price ticket online.
With Auckland under alert point 3, others are encouraged to physically distance themselves and wear a mask or mask. However, these are not mandatory.
3 p.m. – Police have been occupied at checkpoints north and south of Auckland since Wednesday. They also adopt “reinsurance patrols” in services such as supermarkets, pharmacies and verification stations.
On a Saturday afternoon, police said no arrests had yet been made for violations of the restrictions. Agents focus on schooling rather than the distribution of infringement notices.
“Motorists at police checkpoints in Tumaki Makaurau have sometimes met and have definitely committed to police personnel,” he said.
“There has been significant relief in traffic in Auckland, with fewer disruptions and delays.
“There have been no primary adjustments at checkpoints around Auckland.”
Maori defense forces and guards are also provided at police checkpoints.
At 4pm on Friday, four0,865 cars were stopped at checkpoints, 605 of which turned around. More than 1,880 “prevention activities” were carried out, “including targeted patrols and reinsurance controls on services such as supermarkets, pharmacies and COVID-19 detection sites.”
2:50 p.m. – Early Saturday, Newshub reported that Toi Te Ora Bay of Plenty – Lakes District reported that a user who took the COVID-19 test after arriving in Japan had recently visited Rotorua.
Among the places that visited Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland on August 7 between 9am and 10.15am.
The facility showed Newshub that the local fitness government was in touch. They said the government says the threat is low and no members have symptoms.
“However, all the staff has been tested. We comply with strict rules through the Ministry of Health. Since our opening in May, we have been disinfecting our site thoroughly every day.”
Dr. Neil de Wet, the local health care physician, says those who visited the destination at the time monitor themselves for symptoms.
14.45am – The first two weeks of Farah Palmer Cup rugby have been cancelled due to the return to the COVID-19 3 alert point.
The north pool of the national women’s festival is scheduled to begin on Saturday, August 22.
All those teams, which come with Northland, North Harbour, Auckland, Manukau, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Taranaki counties, are in Auckland.
NZ Rugby hopes that those affected matches can be added to the next round.
For more information here.
2:35 p.m. – Auckland Transport (AT) has announced new adjustments on public transport in addition to those made after crossing to alert level 3 on Wednesday.
These new settings include:
2:15 p.m. – 23,846 tests processed in New Zealand on Friday. This takes our total to 548,260.
When examining our 37 assets (in addition to controlled isolation or quarantine), 8 were detected in Auckland DHB, 21 in Manuaku counties, two in Waikato and six in Waitemata.
All instances shown must now remain in a quarantine facility. The two boxes of Tokoroa are transported to Auckland services: the Jet Park Hotel.
2.10pm – No mask in sight and only a minimum social distance at Cambridge Farmers Market. But many other people log in with the COVID Tracer app and disinfect at the input. Cambridge, in Waikato, is under warning point 2.
2:05 p.m. – The Jet Park Hotel, the main quarantine center, has been evacuated due to a chimney alarm. This turned out to be a false alarm.
Minister Hipkins at the press convention had no data on it. However, he said there is a plan on how to treat visitors if an alarm sounds.
14:00 h: masks or face coatings are now strongly recommended in Auckland and are advised throughout the country. Local teams on Facebook are smart options if you want a mask and the outlets are sold out.
1:40 p.m. – Summary of key topics from this press conference: There are seven new instances of COVID-19 in the community, and they are all similar to the Auckland group. Dr. Bloomfield is convinced that a link will be discovered between the group and this additional case, as well as starting Friday.
A total of 54 other people connected to the group, adding a circle of relatives members of inflamed people, were transferred to quarantine facilities.
All the evidence was negative from those at the Morrinsville Kingswood Nursing Home, which were visited through two positive cases.
Dr. Bloomfield says other people who were positive in Japan and Belgium who recently visited New Zealand were not symptomatic during their stay in New Zealand.
On Friday, 23,846 tests were processed, a new record.
The only user of the hospital is a general practitioner from Mt Wellington. You have no symptoms when you care about patients, but other people who visited the center are monitored 48 hours before it becomes symptomatic.
Health Minister Hipkins warned others not to accept the data circulating on social media as true and also condemned the intimidation of COVID-19 cases.
1:16 p.m. – Health Minister Chris Hipkins said COVID tracking app records and QR downloads have doubled in the last 4 days.
1:11 p.m. – No New Zealander returning to controlled isolation has conducted coronavirus screening in more than 24 hours, Dr. Ashley Bloomfield said.
1:10 p.m. – Dr. Ashley Bloomfield says two COVID-19s in Tokoroa are being transferred to a quarantine center in Auckland.
1:05 p.m. – There are 7 new COVID-19s in New Zealand on Saturday, said Director General of Health, Dr. Ashley Bloomfield.
Six of those cases are similar to the existing Auckland group, while one remains under investigation. Dr. Bloomfield said he was confident, but that he would be connected to the group.
There have now been 1,258 cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand, of which they are active.
12:54 p.m. – Watch Saturday’s press conference on COVID-19 here. It is scheduled to start at 1 p.m.
12:28 – The new COVID-19 epidemic is a “reality control” for corporations that are already on the market and difficult decisions are coming, according to Brad Olsen, senior economist at Infometrics.
Watch the Newshub Nation interview here.
12:15 p.m. – Health Minister Chris Hipkins and Chief Health Officer, Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, will provide the latest update on the COVID-19 outbreak in Auckland at 1 p.m.
Hipkins told Newshub Nation the previous Saturday that the “control” of the cases had been identified.
12.07pm – A New Zealand entrepreneur from the Cook Islands is devastated by the transmission of the network at home.
Peter Hayes owns an accommodation in Rarotonga and had withstood a bubble.
He said the broadcast of Newshub Auckland’s revamped network a genuine blow.
It wasn’t until Monday that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said a bubble was expected in the Cook Islands before the end of the year.
11:57 a.m. – Chris Hipkins says officials will have to spend “a lot of time” preventing the spread not only of COVID-19, but also of rumors and conspiracy theories.
Speaking to Newshub Nation on Saturday, the fitness minister said citizens were finding instances in their communities before the general public and then on social media.
Read Dan Satherley’s full story here.
11:49 a.m. – The ports of Auckland and Tauranga are suffering after learning that thousands of employees will have to undergo COVID-19 testing by law.
Samples will be taken on Monday, as the Ministry of Health is investigating the source of transmission of the network.
At the Auckland port control site, approximately three hundred other people a day are monitored.
Watch On Friday night, Newshub’s national correspondent Patrick Gower here.
Chief Judith Collins called elections later this year next month, due to the most recent COVID-19 outbreak.
She told Newshub Nation that the resolution was now made through Jacinda Ardern.
“We need other people to be able to have policies and they, not only for September 19, but also for the next one, two, 3 years.”
11:18 a.m. – Former Cook Islands Prime Minister Dr. Joe Williams of Auckland has been admitted to the hospital with COVID-19, Cook Islands News reports.
11:12 a.m. – Jetstar has suspended all domestic flights from August 18 to 26.
“If you have been affected by flight cancellations, you will be contacted via Jetstar for the next 24 hours with your available functions,” the airline said in Travel Alert.
“Customers who have booked Jetstar for a flight between Tuesday 11:59 p.m. And on Wednesday, August 26, they will be contacted directly to the available features, adding the postponement of their travel date to return home on any flight at the latest. August 18 at no additional cost. Arrange or request proof of credits to be refunded.”
11:09 a.m. – Judith Collins revealed a small component of National’s border policy on Saturday morning, saying it would involve normal evidence of everyone at the Managed Isolation and Quarantine Facility (MIQ).
If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the government’s existing policy. Collins told Newshub Nation that the difference would be that under a government run through a national government, the electorate can be sure that this would happen.
Read Dan Satherley’s full story here.
11:07 a.m. – Independent butchers in New Zealand urge the government to treat them as a must-have product as the closure of Auckland’s COVID-19 continues.
This comes after the government announced Friday that Auckland will remain the restriction of the 3 alert points for another 12 days.
Retail Meat New Zealand wrote to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Friday asking her to reclassify butchers as “essential services.”
Read the full story here.
10:31 a.m. – A user who tested COVID-19 upon arrival in Japan recently visited Rotorua and Taup.
The Toi Te Ora Department of Public Health warns the public that they have been exposed in two places.
They visited the wairakei terraces on Thursday, August 6 between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., and the Wai-O-Tapu WonderLand on Friday, August 7, between 9 a.m. and 10.15 a.m.
Dr. Neil of Wet says that other people who visited at the time monitor the symptoms.
“If you were in one of those places on those dates and times, there’s a little guy who was exposed,” said Dr. de Wet, Toi Te Ora’s Public Health Medical Officer.
10:28 a.m. – National leader Judith Collins urges kiwis to comply with existing alert point regulations and be safe.
“If I’m on public transport or something, I’m dressed in a mask,” he told Newshub Nation.
“Following regulations and following fitness recommendations is the first thing I would say,” Collins said, adding that the country “couldn’t afford” the blockade after that.
10:22 – Although authorities say there is no evidence to recommend that the most recent COVID-19 outbreak originated at the border, national leader Judith Collins told Newshub Nation: “It’s pretty transparent that this is a border failure.”
“It’s nothing that hides in the network, it somehow went across the border.”
10:19 a.m. – The government’s resolution on Auckland’s closing restrictions is backed by national leader Judith Collins.
“I think they have to, you may not see what else they can do, especially since they haven’t yet gone to tell New Zealanders how COVID-19 crossed the border this time,” he told Newshub. Nation. “I think they want to do it, and they obviously haven’t tracked everyone who’s been in touch with the infected. I think they have to.”
10:14 a.m. – ACT leader David Seymour joined calls to allow schools to operate at Alert Level three to help seniors.
Auckland’s grammar director Tim O’Connor told Newshub that there would be disastrous consequences if sixth- and seventh graders were allowed to be informed face-to-face.
Under alert level 3, only staff academics can attend physical classes.
Seymour said on a Saturday that there was no logic in the decision.
“Simply sending academics home, regardless of whether it has an effect on their long-term future, is unsuccessful and will erode public confidence in government strategy.”
10:09 a.m. – Health Minister Chris Hipkins said mistakenly naming the school as affected through Auckland’s COVID-19 is a “problem with preparing for the press conference.”
The director general of health, Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, told reporters friday that one of the thirteen new instances of COVID-19 in New Zealand is similar to that of the university, however, the school said so the first time she heard of the case.
At a press conference after the press conference, the Ministry of Health showed that it had incorrectly appointed the school as an affected school and apologized.
Hipkins told Newshub Nation on Saturday that he believed Dr. Bloomfield and his team had earned qualifications.
“Obviously, we will review to adjust this procedure as much as possible,” Hipkins said.
9:54 a.m. – According to the Minister of Health, there is no evidence that the last outbreak has crossed the border.
“It’s a genuine component of the puzzle,” Chris Hipkins told Newshub Nation. “We must resolve this riddle as temporarily as possible.
“At this point, you don’t have to cross the border in a sense of person to person.”
9:52 a.m. – The most recent COVID-19 outbreak is unclear, Health Minister Chris Hipkins told Newshub Nation.
“It is very likely that it originated in Australia or the United Kingdom, but at this point we still do not know how this cluster came into contact with COVID-19 in the first place.”
9:38 a.m. – Health Minister Chris Hipkins said some additional instances of COVID-19 will be announced Saturday at 1 p.m.
“There are a handful of new ones that have been identified,” he told Newshub Nation.
“Of course, all contacts and links will be processed this morning, and we will publish the main points about it.
“Everyone seems to be in Auckland, everyone seems to be connected to this organization we’re dealing with.”
9:21 a.m. – Following the announcement of the blockade extension on Friday night, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told the Project that there was “a lot of speculation” that the restrictions would tighten further.
“I hear some of this noise, a lot of other people have speculated that we’re moving to point four but with no explanation for why.”
Read the full story or watch the interview above.
9:13 a.m. – The countdown indicates that it is ready for the Level 3 alert extension in Auckland.
“While our online grocery shopping service is in high demand, we are working hard to increase our customers’ capacity and have many delivery spaces,” said Kiri Hannifin, Countdown spokesman.
“Our consumers have done the right task of adapting to the settings of the alert points in Aotearoa and are well trained in what is needed when they visit our stores.
“It’s wonderful to see that many of our Auckland customers are dressed in masks and play their component to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.”
9:08 a.m. – The replacement of the COVID-19 alert point noticed intense pressure on Gisborne’s sewer formula.
Since Wednesday, there has been a 600% build-up in stuck pipes in the local system.
Read the full RNZ story here.
9:03 – The newest in COVID-19 worldwide:
As New Zealand reports its first outbreak in more than 3 months, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage abroad.
Nearly 300,000 new instances are now displayed, totaling 21.2 million, and tens of millions more are likely to be exposed even untested.
The toll is now 760,000.
Read the latest from Dan Satherley and Reuters from Newshub here.
8:47 a.m. – Companies are suggested to take proactive steps to mitigate the monetary effects of Auckland’s COVID-19 restrictions.
According to SBA Chief Economist Nick Tuffley, it is imperative that others take every opportunity to prepare.
“If other people are facing monetary difficulties, whether it’s non-public finances or their business, it would be really smart to touch your bank as soon as it’s imaginable to succeed and get support, and that will help you,” he said. . It’s Newshub.
8:44 a.m. – It is feared that systemic inequality in the country’s health care formula is with the new COVID-19 epidemic.
The government’s official COVID tracking app led the official rate of opposition to the virus, The University of Victoria’s fitness professor Clive Aspin told Newshub that thinking too much about the generation would cause problems.
“If we depend on this as a mechanism to prevent them from spreading Maori communities, then we feel good under our obligations to achieve equitable effects for all communities.
8:42 a.m. – The government is suggested to allow schools to operate at alert point 3 to help seniors.
Auckland’s grammar director Tim O’Connor told Newshub that there would be disastrous consequences if sixth and seventh graders were allowed to be informed face-to-face.
Under alert level 3, only staff academics can attend physical classes.
8:29 a.m. – With the opening of the COVID-19 detection center in Auckland on Saturday, there will be 17 stations on the network where others will be able to detect the new coronavirus.
The more will be in Rosedale and will be open from 8 am to 5 pm.
There are also 43 GPs where other people can be tested without registration.
“Whenever possible, we alleviate some of this tension by opting for a gpated family doctor or emergency care clinic for testing,” said Margie Apa, director of the Northern Region Health Coordination Center.
Click here for a complete list of sites.
8:16 a.m. – The reliability of the COVID application raises concerns.
Technology has played a key role in the government’s reaction to the latest epidemic with thousands of downloads in the last 24 hours.
But the University of Victoria’s fitness professor, Clive Aspin, told Newshub that the app is not a quick fix.
It is very likely that people living in rural and remote areas will be deprived of the component because they would probably not have to access the mandatory networks. We know that older people, and Maori in components, are less likely to have the devices needed to use the tracking device. “
8:05 a.m. – An economist doubts that an extension of the COVID-19 wage subsidy will blow up the bank.
SBA’s leading economist Nick Tuffley says this is part of the government’s spending line.
“When we look at two weeks of long-term wage subsidies for the entire country, it will be less than what was noticed for the initial 12-week wage subsidies,” he told Newshub.
Learn more about extending wage subsidies here.
8 a.m. – The University of Auckland said that one of its academics had reported positive for COVID-19.
They’re connected to the existing group, he said Friday night.
“The student has not been on campus since the end of July and does not live in student housing, so we are convinced that the threat of exposure to other academics is minimal.
“The Ministry of Health is handling the case and we are making our student well supported.”
Vice Chancellor Dawn Freshwater said they had detailed contingency plans.
“The protection of our academics is of paramount importance and we will adhere very much to the recommendation of the Ministries of Health and Education.”
7.25 a.m. – The Cook Islands, which were riddled with a bubble with New Zealand, closed their borders to all incoming flights until at least 17 August.
7:20 a.m. – A British PhD student in New Zealand who returned to the UK for her father’s funeral told Newshub about his desperate attempts to return to New Zealand.
“I am rejected within 20 minutes of my application, it turns out that the computer simply says no,” Sophie Farrow said.
Find out more about it here.
The original 4-instance genome series is different from the strain previously observed this year and has still been connected to any instance detected in managed quarantine and isolation facilities at the border.
“We know that the incubation age of the virus can only be 12 days, so it is very likely that other people have not yet developed symptoms,” Michael Plank, a statistics specialist at the University of Canterbury, told Newshub.
“We want that extra time to make sure that we’ve discovered all the instances that exist.”
Dr. Plank says the race to his source is underway.
“What they’re still running is that this may be similar to one of the cases we’ve noticed at the border. They’re still running a number of that.”
Dr. Plank says other outdoors in Auckland paint hard to make sure it doesn’t spread further.
“I would recommend anyone who has traveled from Auckland in the last two weeks to check for isolated. Everyone across the country must make sure they’re physically distant, and [wear masks] and look for contacts.”
6.30 am – Passengers will no longer be able to fly on a scheduled flight to Rarotonga this morning.
So far, a week-long flight to the country has transported citizens and visa holders. But Air New Zealand CEO Greg Foran said the point 3 extension had put an end to that.
The Department of Health says it is working to mitigate any COVID-19 threat coming out of New Zealand.
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