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Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Reflection

 I have been reading a news article about covid 19 but it is mostly all Auckland in It. Auckland entered level 3 lockdown on 28th of  February 2021for the second time this year, less than two weeks after the last three-day lockdown in mid-February. Ardern announced the alert level changes on Saturday night after a 21-year-old man tested positive earlier that day. He had attended classes at Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) and visited a number of other locations while potentially infectious. His mother, case N, also tested positive on Saturday. While no new cases in the community have been reported yet, Ardern and Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield revealed how case N and her son, case M, are connected to a family who tested positive for Covid-19 in mid-February. New community cases had contact with infected family it was revealed that case N went for a walk with case F on the morning of 15 February, the day after Auckland last went into lockdown. Both families have students who attend Papatoetoe High School. The other household was the second cluster in the February outbreak. Case F's daughter tested positive on 16 February, and case F tested positive on 17 February. The contact between the two families was not disclosed to contact tracers prior to the family entering quarantine. A graph showing the connection between the cases in the Auckland February cluster Photo: RNZ/ Vinay RanchhodThe latest family - case N and M - told officials about the contact later, Ardern said. She could not say why the first family did not disclose the contact, whether it was for fear that it occurred during level 3 or lack of memory. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson told Checkpoint he did not believe case M and N's actions were defiant or ideological. He has not seen any evidence they were deliberately ignoring rules and said they had been co-operative.

A graph showing the connection between the cases in the Auckland February cluster


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