Cracks starting to show at MIQ, returnees say

Cracks starting to show at MIQ, returnees say
Brent Melville
Guests at an Auckland managed isolation and quarantine facility say staff have only recently acted to separate returnees who have been tested from those who have not, while travellers remain free to mingle with other groups even after their second covid tests.The revelations, from guests at both Auckland's Grand Mercure and Novotel Ellerslie, come as the government orders a review of the MIQ system. That follows the latest community case in Northland, of a woman who caught the virus while at the city's Pullman Hotel. A returnee fro...

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