New Zealand's Extraordinary Quarantine Step as Coronavirus Outbreak Grows

New Zealand will put all positive cases of coronavirus in the country into hotel quarantine.

There are now 36 cases of the virus in New Zealand with 13 in Auckland alone.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday she expected that cluster to grow.

Ms Ardern added the cluster of cases was "serious but being dealt with in an urgent but calm and methodological way".

Health Director-General Dr Ashley Bloomfield told reporters on Thursday all cases of COVID-19 were “to be managed in a quarantine facility”.

He added it was a different approach to when most of the country was at restriction levels three and four.

Coronavirus: New Zealand's extraordinary quarantine step as outbreak grows

Josh Dutton

News Reporter

Yahoo News Australia13 August 2020

New Zealand will put all positive cases of coronavirus in the country into hotel quarantine.

There are now 36 cases of the virus in New Zealand with 13 in Auckland alone.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday she expected that cluster to grow.

Ms Ardern added the cluster of cases was "serious but being dealt with in an urgent but calm and methodological way".

Police officers wearing protective masks talk to motorists at a checkpoint in the Bombay area of Auckland, New Zealand. The country recorded its first coronavirus community transmission cases for the first time in three months.

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Police officers speak to drivers in the Bombay area of Auckland as the city goes into lockdown. Source: Getty Images

Health Director-General Dr Ashley Bloomfield told reporters on Thursday all cases of COVID-19 were “to be managed in a quarantine facility”.

He added it was a different approach to when most of the country was at restriction levels three and four.

“It shows how serious we are,” Dr Bloomfield said.

“This will apply to any cases and also close family members who might be at risk as appropriate.

“A reminder: these facilities have been set up specifically and have excellent processes and resources in place to look after people with COVID-19 including health staff on site at all times.”

Dr Bloomfield said it was hoped putting people into quarantine would stop the “inadvertent spread” of coronavirus into the community.

It’s not clear where this quarantine facility is but in the past New Zealand has used hotels just like Australia has.

Before the recently reported cases of COVID-19, the country had not reported any new community transmissions for three months.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-new-zealand-extraordinary-quarantine-step-041504031.html

>>10302569

Note in the MSM Blahoo article, the first sentence uses the phrase "hotel quarantine."

However, in the following paragraph, New Zealand's Health Director-General is quoted as saying all cases would "be managed in a quarantine facility."

This is a Coronavirus internment camp that he is talking about.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in a Facebook live video explained in detail how each and every activity will be monitored in these camps and those that refuse to be tested would be forced to stay in the camps for a longer duration.

We are quarantining everyone. Now we are also mandating testing. That makes us the most stringent in the world. There are countries that are requiring self-isolation; we’re taking it a bit further.

If anyone moves into a common area or is getting some fresh air, which is all monitored no one can do that on their own. They can only leave or be in a space to get a little bit of fresh air if they are supervised, because ofcourse it’s a quarantine facility.

We have put in millions of dollars into supporting that to happen.

I have a number of questions about people refusing – what do we do if someone refuses to be tested. Well they can’t now. If someone refuses in our facilities to be tested, they have to keep staying. So they won’t be allowed to leave after 14 days. They have to stay on for another 14 days.

So, it’s a pretty good incentive. You either get your tests done and make sure you’re cleared or we will keep you in a facility longer. So I think most people will look at it and say I will take the test.

Interestingly, earlier New Zealand’s deputy opposition leader accused the government of stage-managing the outbreak over a week.

This is the NZ Deputy opposition leader walking really close to accusing the the government of stage-managing the outbreak over a week.

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— Charles Croucher (@ccroucher9) August 12, 2020

The announcement come days after Canada’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barbara Yaffe exposed the uselessness of mandatory mass coronavirus testing warning that it takes resources away from more essential fields and does not “actually achieve anything.”

https://greatgameindia.com/new-zealand-quarantine-camps/

>>10302690

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>>10302679

She stated directly that the intention is to modify behavior. They will be using quarantine as a punishment for refusing to be tested. TESTED.

Imagine what she will do when the vax is ready.