Military to take over covid-19 isolation management

Military to take over covid-19 isolation management
Gavin Evans
Control of managed isolation facilities has been handed to the military after process failures left two people infected with covid-19 free to travel the length of the North Island.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said ministers had been assured that those in quarantine were being tested twice during their isolation – on days three and 12 – but that the system had failed.New Zealand registered its first new cases of covid-19 yesterday after 24 days of no new cases, when two citizens were granted compassionate leave to visit a dying pare...

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