Covid-19: Associate Health Minister confirms 22nd case - a podcast by RNZ

from 2021-08-20T07:08

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A 22nd case of Covid-19 in the community has been confirmed overnight.
That person is a young man who is receiving treatment in Waitakere Hospital. In the past few days, he had visited North Shore Hospital - that hospital is now diverting all new patients elsewhere and is expected to make a statement shortly.
Across Auckland the number of locations of interest has swelled to close to 150 by late last night. and the number of close contacts is now more than a thousand.
Guyon Espiner spoke to Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall.

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