Tagged: coronavirus variants

Why more contagious variants are emerging now, more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic - COVID-19

Guest Author • Feb 16, 2021 •

• coronavirus variants,
• COVID-19

David Welch, University of Auckland; Jemma Geoghegan, University of Otago; Joep de Ligt, ESR, and Nigel French, Massey University New variants of SARS-CoV-2 have now evaded New Zealand’s border protections twice to spread into the community. In the most recent outbreak, which placed Auckland into an alert level 3 lockdown, there are three active community cases of the … Read More

Your questions on the latest NZ Covid cases, answered - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Feb 16, 2021 •

• b117,
• coronavirus variants,
• COVID-19,
• managed isolation and quarantine facilities,
• MIQ

Three new community cases of Covid-19 and an unknown source have plunged Auckland into lockdown and the rest of the country into alert level two. Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles tackles some of the critical questions we now face. Could we be looking at a situation as worrying as last August in Auckland? Yes. Like in August, it isn’t clear yet how … Read More

Close contact test results will be crucial to whether Auckland’s level 3 lockdown is extended beyond three days - COVID-19

Guest Author • Feb 15, 2021 •

• b117,
• coronavirus variants,
• COVID-19,
• managed isolation and quarantine facilities,
• MIQ

Michael Plank, University of Canterbury; Shaun Hendy, University of Auckland, and Siouxsie Wiles, University of Auckland New Zealand’s latest community cases, the first to be infected with the more infectious B.1.1.7 variant of COVID-19, have a plausible link to the border through one person’s workplace at LSG Sky Chefs, a business that deals with laundry and catering from international … Read More