WELLINGTON – A worker for a managed isolation quarantine hotel in central Auckland, New Zealand, tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday, marking the third consecutive case from the same quarantine hotel, according to the country’s Health Ministry.
A security guard for the hotel tested positive last week after one cleaner tested positive on March 21.
Separately, Yunnan Province in southwest China reported two confirmed new Covid-19 cases, the provincial health commission said today.
Both of the cases were found in the border city of Ruili during the third round of citywide nucleic acid testing campaign, the commission said.
China does not include positive cases that are asymptomatic in its officially tally.
Over in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province reported 4,456 new cases, the highest single-day case count there since the pandemic started last year.
The report brought the province’s caseload to 386,608, including 7,552 deaths and 346,239 recoveries.
Meanwhile, that tally for Canada as a whole is at 1,058,530 cases, including 23,313 deaths and 962,549 recoveries, according to CTV.
In Britain, scientists have warned that the government is risking a third Covid-19 wave by easing the lockdown too soon, local media reported yesterday.
“There are areas in West Yorkshire, the Black Country and other regions that still have high infection rates. However, many people there cannot afford to self-isolate.
“We need to tackle that issue urgently or the virus will come back again,” Leeds University medical school Assoc Prof Stephen Griffin told the Observer. – Bernama, April 12, 2021
