Waimea Weekly Locally Owned and Operated
Wednesday 6 May 2020
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Low chance of catching Covid locally A new Covid-19 case was confirmed in the Nelson region last week. A woman in her 30’s returned to New Zealand from the Cook Islands on March 26, and she was in New Zealand for 34 days before she tested positive. This was the first case confirmed in the Nelson Tasman region since 9 April. The woman, a New World Stoke employee, worked on three separate occasions in the store in a non-customer facing role before going into isolation. New World stoke have undertaken a deep clean of the store. So far, testing of close contacts with the woman, including fellow New World employees, have come back negative. Waimea Weekly understands that the woman’s husband was an employee at Brightwater Engineering, and that the premises there was temporarily closed. He was stood down for two weeks, while the rest of the staff have been tested at Brightwater Engineering, as well as staff at one of their client’s sites. These tests are all believed to have returned negative. The news of a new Covid-19 case in the region saw a spike in testing at the Tahuna testing centre.
The Nelson Marlborough District Health Board says that the case is still being investigated, but evidence suggests there is no community transmission in the region. This is beacause the woman was not working in a customer facing role, and wore a mask while at work. The negative testing of close contacts with the woman also means that community transmission of the virus in the region is unlikely.While the case is travel related, this does not necessarily mean that the case originated in the country of travel. Travel related cases may be caused by contact with someone who is infected on board a flight or at an airport. Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says it was unlikely the woman caught Covid-19 in the Cook Islands, as there are no cases reported in the Cook Islands. He said it was likely the woman caught the virus in New Zealand. “Whether it happened in another setting during the period after that person arrived back, and so that’s more likely.” There are 23 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the Nelson region, with 5 probable cases.
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