New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has prolonged the blockade in Auckland for at least 12 days as the government struggles to locate the source of a new coronavirus outbreak. Since 4 other people tested positive on Tuesday, the first cases of network transmission in 102 days, New Zealand has detected an organization of 30 cases of the virus.
The circle of relatives of New Zealand’s last coronavirus outbreak has a genome called B.1.1.1. and goes back to Wuhan and Australia. Picture: newshub. Source: Supplied
The New Zealand government is investigating whether an outbreak is due to refrigerated products from a Melbourne fridge, where two staff members recently tested positive for the disease.
On Friday, five Americolds in Mount Wellington and a contractor who visited the site tested positive for Covid-19.
There have been two cases shown of Covid-19 at the Americold facility in Melbourne in the last two weeks.
New Zealand’s director general of health, Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, said genomic tests are underway to see if there was any link between the cases.
Scientists in New Zealand have also known the “family” of their most recent COVID-19 outbreak and say their call is “B.1.1.1”. and you can trace it back to Wuhan.
The lineage of the genomic series of the original group, which began with 4 new instances on August 11 and is more than 30, is also connected to instances in Australia.
Dr Bloomfield, the samples had “close links” to the coronavirus genomes in the UK and Australia.
And B.1.1.1 is provided in countries such as Peru, Uruguay, South Africa, Switzerland and Bangladesh.
But B.1.1.1. has no connection to COVID-19 genomes in the United States.
The scientist who did the sequencing of B.1.1.1. told news.com.au that a positive COVID-19 control pattern in New Zealand is compared to other genomes in the world.
Dr. Jemma Geoghegan, an evolutionary biologist and virologist at the University of Otago, said samples had been sent to the New Zealand Institute for Scientific Research, ESR, for analysis.
“Then we compared genomes to other genomes around the world and to what genetic lineage they belong.
“The new instances in New Zealand belonged to a B.1.1.1.1 lineage.”
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Scientists have analyzed the gene series of the NZ virus outbreak and it is B.1.1.1., which can be traced back to COVID-19 genomes in Wuhan, Australia and the United Kingdom.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and health director Dr. Ashley Bloomfield after this week’s new group. Picture: Mark Mitchell / NZ Herald Source: Supplied
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B.1.1.1. is the genome series for any case of controlled quarantine coronavirus, so the source of the new cluster remains a mystery.
After 102 days of a new case, New Zealand’s hopes of eradicating and its international reputation as a virus blender were thwarted on Tuesday.
That’s 3 days later, 4 members of the same circle of relatives checked into a hotel and visited a place to eat at the tourist of the city of Rotorua on the North Island.
The next day, the family circle visited a café in Rotorua, a supermarket and skyline gondola, and on Monday 4 other places.
Dr. Jemma Geoghegan led the breakthrough. Source: Supplied
Last Tuesday afternoon, the first positive test result of a circle of family members returned and within 90 minutes, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern reported.
At 9:15 p.m., it held a press convention that New Zealand had 4 new cases of coronavirus and that Auckland would move to Phase 3 of the blockade and the rest of the country to Phase 2.
The restrictions were intended to last until Friday, but the government prolonged the blockade for an additional 12 days, as the group increased to 30 cases of viruses.
New Zealand recorded a total of 1,602 coronaviruses and 22 deaths.