The flights originating from the neighboring country of Australia will be allowed again, so I announced the federal minister of health, Greg Hunt, after the brief suspension that the government had to take as a measure to detect new cases of the virus in Travellers from that country.
From 2 in the afternoon flights from New Zealand will be resumed according to the advice of the interim medical director Michael Kidd. This measure had to be taken from the fact that there were three cases of infected people, all of them travelers were flying from that country.
In this regard, the federal minister of health, Greg Hunt, said: “In making this recommendation, the interim pointed out that there have been no more confirmed cases of the virus in the New Zealand community since the initial three cases originated by transmission within the quarantine. of the hotel”
Hunt He added that no new infections have been observed, not even from those who had contact with any of the people, each of them yielded negative results, and to date no new cases have been reported or in the residents or staff of the Hotels they visited.
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Travelers from New Zealand will continue to be monitored
Despite lifting restrictions the Main Committee on Health Protection will continue to closely monitor the situation of infected travelers from New Zealand. Daily reports will be prepared with the results of the tracking of new cases related to this new outbreak.
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Later Michael Kidd commented that it will be necessary and advisable to add controls before and after the flights, for at least the next 10 days, as there is still a small risk that cases will continue to be detected.
“In addition to being screened for possible symptoms of the virus, this screening will verify that travelers have not been identified as close contacts of the infected cases, or have not visited any of New Zealand’s screening areas for new outbreaks,” he said. Kidd.
You will be aware that if you have been in any of the irrigation zones contagion, Travellers must be examined, have a negative result and receive the corresponding approval from the authorities of New Zealand.
Currently Australia It has been a record 14 days without a local contagion, so the measures will anticipate a re-outbreak of the virus.
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