'Unacceptable failure': New Zealand brings in military after Covid-19 quarantine fiasco
Prime minister says release of two overseas arrivals without being tested ‘should never have happened and it cannot be repeated’
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has branded an “unacceptable failure” a quarantine blunder that meant two arrivals from Britain left managed isolation in New Zealand without being tested for the coronavirus – which they were later diagnosed with.
“It should never have happened and it cannot be repeated,” Ardern said on Wednesday, adding that the defence force would now oversee the quarantine of new arrivals and audit the quarantine process.
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