21/08/2021
New Zealand will remain at Alert Level 4 until 11.59pm on Tuesday 24 August with a review on Monday to determine next steps.
At Alert Level 4 you can only leave home to shop for groceries, access necessary healthcare, get a COVID-19 test, exercise in your local area, or go to work if you are working in an Alert Level 4 service and cannot work from home. Only make physical contact with those in your household bubble.
You legally must wear a face covering if you are a customer or an employee involving customer contact at a business or service operating at Alert Level 4.
If you have been at a location of interest or have symptoms, immediately self-isolate and get a test.
You can find locations of interest here: https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-health-advice-public/contact-tracing-covid-19/covid-19-contact-tracing-locations-interest
You can find testing centres here: https://covid19.govt.nz/health-and-wellbeing/covid-19-testing/community-testing-centres/
The health system is still operating. If you need healthcare, you can access care the same way you normally would. If that is your GP, give them a ring. If that’s Healthline, ring free on 0800 611 116. In an emergency immediately dial 111.
Be patient, be kind, stay informed.
23/06/2021
The Wellington region will be at Alert Level 2 from 6pm on Wednesday 23 June until 11:59pm on Sunday 27 June. This includes Wairarapa and Kāpiti Coast.
A traveller from Sydney, who visited Wellington from Saturday 19 June until Monday 21 June, has tested positive for COVID-19 upon their return to Australia.
It is most likely they contracted the virus in Sydney before they arrived in New Zealand. Genome sequencing is underway in Australia to see if the case is linked to the current outbreak in Sydney.
People who have been at the locations of interest listed on our earlier post must isolate immediately and call Healthline on 0800 358 5453 for advice on testing and isolating.
At Alert Level 2, you can go to work and school, but you should follow public health measures and consider others around you.
If you’re sick, stay home. Do not go to work or school. Do not socialise.
If you have cold, flu or COVID-19 symptoms, call your doctor or Healthline on 0800 358 5453 and get advice about being tested.
If you have been told to self-isolate you legally must do so immediately.
It’s important that you use basic hygiene measures, including washing your hands, coughing or sneezing into your elbow and cleaning surfaces.
Use the NZ COVID Tracer app if you can. This helps with rapid contact tracing if it’s required.
Keep your distance when outside your home. You should keep a distance of at least:
- 2 metres in public and in retail stores, like supermarkets and clothes shops
- 1 metre in most other places like workplaces, cafes, restaurants and gyms.
At Alert Level 2 the risk of COVID-19 being present in the community is higher. You legally must wear a face covering on public transport and on domestic flights. You are encouraged to wear face coverings in situations where physical distancing is not possible, like in shops.
At gatherings and events, there can be no more than 100 people at social gatherings, including weddings, birthdays, funerals and tangihanga.
At Alert Level 2 cafes, restaurants and bars can open and have customers on their premises. They legally must meet requirements to keep their customers safe.
The 3 S's will be in place if you're dining in.
- Seated — customers legally must be seated.
- Separated — keep at least 1 metre apart from other groups.
- Single server — each group will have only 1 server, where practical.
Find out more here: https://covid19.govt.nz/wellington
01/09/2020
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11/08/2020
COVID-19 UPDATE: MORE INFORMATION COMING
We have four confirmed cases of COVID-19 in one family acquired from an unknown source.
The index case is a person in their 50s who lives in South Auckland.
They were swabbed yesterday, and the swab was processed twice. A second swab has been taken today confirms the positive result.
The person has been symptomatic for five days and has been interviewed by Auckland Regional Public Health. The person has no overseas travel history.
As is our usual protocol we have traced and continue to trace close and casual contacts of this person and getting them tested for COVID-19.
This has included household contacts of the case who received a rapid test this evening. Three of these tests have also come back positive and we are awaiting three further results.
All close contacts will remain in self-isolation for 14 days, regardless of their test result, and all casual contacts will remain in self isolation until they have returned a negative test.
In addition, we are working over the next few days to test all people that are working at our borders and everyone that works at a managed isolation facility.
There will also be no barriers to anyone that has cold and flu symptoms getting tested. Testing is free. If you are offered a test, please take it.
In Auckland the four community testing centres in Northcote, Grafton, Henderson and Wiri will be operating with more staff and extra hours. The testing centres in Auckland, Waitemata and Counties Manukau are all prepared for receiving more people. Details will be on our website tonight.
The three DHBs in Auckland are planning pop up clinics over coming days and they will publicise the locations and hours of these clinics.
The Ministry will be working closely with DHBs and primary care around the country to ensure additional testing capacity is available to meet an expected increase in demand.
As we’ve been saying for several weeks, it was inevitable that New Zealand would get another case of community transmission.
We have been working on the basis that it could be at any time – and that time is now.
The health system is well prepared for this eventuality – and the important thing now is that we don’t let the virus spread in our community.
As we did in the early days of this virus emerging, we need to stamp it out.
There are things that every single New Zealander needs to do now:
- Continue or get back to stringent hand hygiene, sneeze and cough into your elbow.
- If you or a family member are unwell please stay at home and contact Healthline or your GP about getting a test.
- Practice physical distancing of two meters wherever possible.
- Consider wearing a mask in public spaces or places where it is hard to physically distance.
If you have any concerns please seek advice from Healthline or your GP on getting a test.
If you have not already, please use this opportunity to download the NZ COVID Tracer app. This will give us your up to date contact details, so if we need to get in touch with you for contact tracing purposes, we can do so quickly.
If you have fallen out of the habit of recording your movements as you go about your day, this case is a reminder of why it is so important.
You can still use the manual function on the app to record where you have been recently, and scan in using QR codes going forward. A reminder too, for businesses – please have a QR code displayed so your customers can be traced quickly if required.
Our contact tracing team will be getting in touch with anyone identified as being a contact of this case. Please be responsive if you are contacted – return the call.
This case is a wake-up call against any complacency that may have set in.
We cannot afford to let this virus spread.
We have seen how quickly it can lead to a wider resurgence in communities overseas. Places that have had COVID-19 under control have seen flare-ups and gone back into a full lockdown.
We are working to not let that happen here. We’ve done this before and we can do it again.
24/03/2020
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12/04/2019
Volunteer opportunity
🌱 World Environment Day is coming 🌱
Gather your work colleagues together and join our fun annual fundraiser - The World Environment Day Tree Planting Challenge. For this event, corporate teams are given two hours to compete to see who can plant the most trees. Last year achieved amazing results with a grand total of 3,921 trees planted across New Zealand in just a couple of hours. This years event will take place on Friday 31st May in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
Want to find out more about this or other events? Contact Siobhan on [email protected] or 0800 567686.
Check out the latest blog post on our website for more info: https://conservationvolunteers.co.nz/news/2019/04/join-us-world-environment-day-corporate-tree-planting-challenge-2019/
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