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The government says no adjustments are being made to border exemptions after 11 members of the fishing team who have just arrived in the country tested positive for Covid-19.
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The fishing team arrived on the flight from Moscow to Christchurch last week and is located remotely at hotel Sudima.
Yesterday, 11 of the 237 team members tested positive for the virus along with 14 other cases imaginable.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) said it was investigating after instances of the regime tests were detected on the third day.
There was no community involvement, he said.
The Ministry of Health said positive instances were part of an organization that only people staying at the facility.
The predominantly Russian team, others from Ukraine. Russia recorded more than 1. 3 million instances of Covid-19, the fourth highest number in all countries.
Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi said no adjustments to border exemptions are being made at this stage.
“The fishing crew scenario shows that New Zealand border control systems are working as they do and demonstrates why strict border control, testing and isolation procedures are essential to our Covid response. “
Air Commodus Darryn Webb, who oversees the isolation facilities, agreed.
“There are more than 40 million Covid cases in the world, so by bringing a large number of people from a position like Russia, we clearly hoped that there would only be positive cases, that’s one of the reasons we took action for their arrival,” Webb said.
“We put them in an exclusive facility, translated the welcome packages into Russian, bought the translation on site and operated at point four to ensure everyone’s safety. “
Nearly a hundred fishing crews have arrived on advertising flights since September, he said.
“We will continue to work with fishing corporations at this level next and the last charter flight is scheduled to land on November 2, as we have noticed in this case, we may make changes, but it is too early to do so. these calls now. “
Authorities were reviewing the team’s main medical points and will most likely find out today if the equipment was tested before leaving Russia.
Lately, it is not mandatory for others to isolate the the test of Covid-19 before flying to New Zealand; however, Sealord, who helped bring the team to the country, said the other 237 people stayed home for two weeks and all returned negative effects before leaving Moscow.
Webb said he understood that they had all been evaluated 72 hours before the flight, but then 24 hours late, so the tests would have been 96 hours.
The long-term threat will have to be addressed: epidemiologist
Epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker says many others in a controlled isolation facility tested positive for Covid-19 if they walked away and took the test before arriving in New Zealand.
However, he says we don’t care.
“We see imported instances more or less every day in New Zealand and, in recent weeks, for example, we see an average of two imported instances consistent with the day in controlled isolation/quarantine facilities.
“Obviously, what we see here is much more in a day than usual. “
This is a component of an ongoing trend where other positive people come from, reflecting the fact that the pandemic has intensified in many parts of the world, Baker said.
This number of other people testing positive at the same time is manageable, but it can be challenging if a large number of other people become seriously ill, he said.
“I think the biggest challenge is the long-term trend, which is that every time we import someone positive for this virus, it poses an additional threat to our system. “
Over time, the accumulations, he said.
“Travellers from countries that have a very intense pandemic with a lot of transmission present, we want to take a look at the steps before going to New Zealand at this risk. “
Professor Shaun Hendy, covid-19 modeler, told First Up that he thought the team would most likely block the virus from transiting.
“Obviously, it will be difficult to manage all those instances, the previous Auckland outbreak, we use compromised services to host networkArray instances. I think the good news is that they’re all in the same establishment and that gives me confidence that we can handle those cases while minimizing the threat of new cases. “
Hendy says it’s easy to estimate the exact dangers of some countries.
“Of course, everything that is needed, and the maximum probably in this case, is just one of the others that bring the infection and then it can be transmitted in transit. “
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