20 Sep 2021

Testing blitz around Firth of Thames as Covid-19 cases emerge

From Checkpoint, 5:10 pm on 20 September 2021

A testing blitz has been on in several Waikato towns today after three cases emerged from a household on the Hauraki Plains.

The three are household members of a prisoner on bail, who returned to Whakatiwai nearly two weeks ago.

Two of them go to Mangatangi School, near Miranda, and one may have been infectious while there on Thursday.

A steady flow of people have been through a hurriedly arranged testing centre today.

Andrew McRae has been at the Wharekawa Marae, on the western shore of the Firth of Thames.