Kate Hawkesby: This is not the time to take risks with Covid

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Aug 1, 2021 · 2m

I was incredulous at the news we’d had a breach in protocols during the transfer of the Covid patient from Fiji.

I shouldn’t have been, it was always a possibility, and perhaps one of the reasons the medics were so against the transfer in the first place. But to hear that a “PPE protocol incident” had occurred and ended up lumping a health worker into Jet Park for two weeks in MIQ, left me aghast.

Imagine being that health worker – already stretched with RSV raging through the hospitals, your colleagues have all said no thanks to this patient coming, you’ve been over ruled by politicians, and…