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The “index case” – the first case the Government found out about – is a person in their 50s who lives in south Auckland, the Ministry of Health said.
They were swabbed on Tuesday after displaying symptoms for five days, including a fever and a cough. They were tested again to confirm the positive result.
The person had no overseas travel history or immediate link to someone who did, or a high-risk worker such as someone who worked at a managed isolation hotel or at the border.
The “index case" works for a finance company which has since shut down and 130 people are now being followed up and tested. Three people at this workplace are symptomatic.
The partner of the first case has also tested positive and a second workplace, in Auckland's Mt Wellington, with 160 staff and four sites across Auckland has been closed, with employees also being tested.
The third case is a woman, in her 20s, who travelled to Rotorua on Saturday with four others on the weekend of August 9.
The fourth case is a pre-schooler who also travelled to Rotorua.
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Lot of potential disaster in that description.
At least two workplaces, one with multiple offices; every single touristy place person 3 visited in Rotovegas, every person she travelled with, plus every place they stopped on the way; possibility of a preschool. This is starting to feel like chapter one of The Stand.
I was hoping that this family would be members of a household containing a quarantine worker or an airline steward or something obvious. Doesn't look like it though.