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Senior quarantine whistleblower says staff were refused regular testing programme despite pleas
A senior quarantine official has blown the whistle on the border-testing botch-up.
He says claims that staff were reluctant to be tested are not correct - and that workers requested a regular testing programme "multiple times", but their concerns were ignored.
"They haven't taken our protection or the wider community's protection seriously by not having a testing programme," he tells Newshub.
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Chris Hipkins has admitted when Government announced a new testing strategy for border workers there was no system in place to track of how many had a swab.
The worker, who's been at the airport ten years, says frontline staff requested a regular testing programme "multiple times", but management declined this.
"Just [got] told it wasn't available, or they didn't have the resources to do it," he says.
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This puts everything in a new light. It wasn't people pulling "that's not in my contract" stubbornness.