Auckland Airport worker tests positive for COVID-19

A fully-vaccinated border worker, who works at Auckland Airport, has returned a positive test result for COVID-19. The usual protocol of isolating the case, interviewing them and tracing their contacts and movements has begun, the New Zealand Ministry of Health said on Tuesday. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the worker has a “very clear link at this stage to cases that are high-risk” and boards aircraft to clean them after they’ve arrived carrying passengers from countries considered COVID-19 “red zones”. “This was someone who was fully vaccinated quite early on in the campaign,” she said, noting the worker was routinely tested on April 12 and April 19, returning a positive result to the latter test. Ardern said she had not yet spoken to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison but health ministers and officials from both countries are “directly communicating” about the new case.<br/>