
English: 
>>

English: 
>> Good afternoon, everybody.
I'll hand over to the
director-general to give you
today's test update, then I'll
talk briefly about testing and
contact tracing.
Director-general:
>> ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD: Today
there are 5 new cases of
COVID-19 to report. 2 are in
managed isolation in
quarantine and 3 are community
cases. The 3 community cases
are all epidemiologically
linked to the Mount Roskell
Evangelical Church and that
grouping has been genomically
linked to the larger Auckland
cluster. All of these cases
were identified as close
contact and were already in
self-isolation.
Both imported cases were
detected at the managed
isolation facility at the
Rydges in Rotorua via routine
testing around day 3. The
first of these is a woman in
her 30s, who aLkJhLkJhLkJh
from Dubai on 28 August. --
who arrived from Dubai on 28

English: 
August. The second is a child,
who arrived from Uzbekistan,
via Dubai, also on 28 August.
Both cases have now been
transferred to the Auckland
quarantine facility with other
members of their bubble.
Since 11 August. Our contact
tracing team has identified
3,192 close contact of cases
and of these, as at 10:00 this
morning, 2,992 had been
contacted and are
self-isolating. We're in the
process of contacting the rest
as quickly as possible.
There are 104 people link the
to the community cluster who
have been transferred through
to the Auckland quarantine
facility, which currently
includes 75 people who have
tested positive for COVID-19
and household contact. Now,
that number is actually coming
down because some of the first
cases that were in the
quarantine facility have now
been considered as recovered
and are now back at home.

English: 
There are 7 people with
COVID-19 in hospital today.
One is in Auckland City
Hospital, to two are in
Middlemore, and 2 in North
Shore. Five are on a ward and
two are in ICU. One each in
Middlemore and Waikato. 8
previously reported cases are
now considered to have
recovered and they are all
community cases.
With today's five new cases,
our total number of active
cases is 129 and, of these, 35
are imported cases that were
identified in managed
isolation facilities and 94
are community-based cases.
Our total number of COVID-19
cases that we have confirmed
is now 1,406, and as far as
laboratory tests, yesterday
10,934 tests were processed
around the country and the
total number of tests
completed to date in New

Maori: 
nga keehi kawemai mai. I kitea
i roto i nga waahanga wehe
whakahaere me te 94 e. Ko to
maatau nama COVID-19 kua
whakamanatia e maatau. Inaianei
1,406, tae atu ki nga
whakamatautau taiwhanga,
inanahi 10,934 i tukatukahia
nga whakamatautau puta noa i te

Maori: 
motu me te maha katoa. O nga
whakamatautau kua oti i tenei
wa ki Niu Tireni e 777,560. Ana.
Pae hopea noa i te arotake o
nga karere. Kua tirohia e
maatau te he o nga karere i
runga i te whakamatautau
COVID-19. I horahia i roto i
nga ra whakataa ka whai i nga
huarahi hei tiro atu me pehea e
kore ai e tupu ano. I kitea e
maua kua hainahia te tangata
haumanu ana, a kua hurihia hei
korero ma te iwi. I hapa i te
mea ko te kawenga a te apiha
kawenga hainahia hei waahanga
whakamutunga. Kare i tupu tera
kua tuu e maatau tetahi huarahi
ki aukati i tera kia tu. Kei te
pirangi au ki te kii na tera i
raruraru ai, au. Mohio,
manukanuka, mo nga Taamaki
Makaurau me nga mihi ki tera mo
muri mai. Kaore au i konei mo
te wiki kua hori, kei te hiahia
au ki te whai waahi. Hoki ki te
mihi nui ki a Tamaki Makaurau
mo a raatau mahi mo te.

English: 
Zealand is 777,560.
And finally just on the review
of messages. We've looked at
how incorrect messaging on
COVID-19 testing was
disseminated over the weekend
and taken steps to look at how
it doesn't happen again. We
found the person was signed
out clinically and it was
converted into a message for
the public. An error was made
in that is are responsible
officer should have signed it
out as a final step. That
didn't happen and we've put in
place a process to prevent
that happening again. I want
to acknowledge that that did
cause confusion and, I know,
anxiety, for Aucklanders and
apologies for that and since I
haven't been here for the last
week, I want to take the
opportunity too to thank
Aucklanders very much for
their work over the last three
weeks to help support are
their response to this
outbreak. It's been of benefit

English: 
to Auckland, the rest of New
Zealand, and in particular the
number of Aucklanders who came
forward to be testing allowed
us to get a quick and clear
understanding of the outbreak
and I want to acknowledge and
thank their efforts. Thank
you, Minister.
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: Last week,
as part of our move to prepare
Auckland for a move from Alert
Level 3 to Alert Level 2,
you'll recall we set a target
of around 10,000 COVID-19
tests per day, or around
70,000 over a 7-day period and
we were aiming at least
two-thirds of those to be in
Auckland. I'm pleased to say
that, with a few fluctuations
here or there, we have more or
less hit those targets. I want
to thank everybody involved in
that testing process. Our
testing regime is in a
critical part of our response
to COVID-19 and it will
continue to be so. So we will
be continuing with a focus on
testing at the airports, at
the ports and in our isolation
facilities, but also in the
wider community as well,
particularly focused on three

Maori: 
Whakamutunga e toru wiki ki. Ko
te awhina awhina ko ta raatau
whakautu ki tenei pakarutanga.
He painga ki a Akarana, te
toenga o Niu Tireni, me. Otira
ko te tokomaha o nga Tamaki
Makaurau i tae whakamua ma te
whakamatau ka ahei matou ki te
maarama tere me te maarama te
pakarutanga mai ana ka hiahia
ahau ki te whakanui me te
whakawhetai ki o raatau k
Tn koe, Minita. CHRIS
HIPKINS: I tera wiki, i roto i
ta maatau neke ki te whakareri
i a Akarana mo te neke atu i te
Matohi Taumata 3 ki te Matohi
Taumata 2, ka taea e koe. Kia
mahara kua whakatauhia e maatau
he whaainga tata ki te 10,000
COVID-19 nga whaka. Ra, tata kii
i roto i te waa 7-ra, me ta
maatau e whai ana iti iho i te
rua hautoru o te hunga kei
Akarana. E koa ana ahau ki te
kii, me etahi rerenga rereke i
konei, i reira ranei, he nui
noa atu te iti o te whiu i era
whaainga. Kei te hiahia ahau ki
te mihi ki nga tangata katoa i
roto i taua mahi whakamatautau.
Ko ta maatau tikanga
whakamatautau he mea nui ki a
maatau whakautu COVID-19 ana ka
pera tonu. Na ka haere tonu ta
maatau titiro ki te
whakamatautau i te. Taunga
rererangi, i nga tauranga, i
roto hoki i o taatau waahanga

Maori: 
wehe, engari. I roto hoki i te
hapori whanui, i tino arotahi
ki. E toru nga roopu whainga-
ko nga mea he tohu makariri me
te rewharewha, nga taangata e
whakapiri atu ana, e hono ana
ranei ki nga waahi e noho
tangata ana. Kua whai COVID-19,
me te whakap o te con tact.
Ka tae ki te Mane, ka tata oti
taatau whakamatautau e rua. Mo
era kei te raina o mua, ko nga
mea e mahi ana i te MIQ, aua ko
wai hoki ka anga atu ki te rohe
me te tikanga o te
whakamatautau i nga wa katoa
tuu mai i reira ka anga
whakamua. Ka tukuna e maatau
etahi atu korero mo tera i mua
o te mutunga o. I tenei wiki,
ko wai ma me whakamatautauria
mo te haere tonu ptake me te
hia o nga wa i whakamatautauria
ai. Ka rite ki taku i korero ai
i mua, ka ahu mai i runga i te
tuponotanga te aromatawai i o
raatau mahi. Ko te hunga e raru
ana te mate ka whakamatautauria
i nga wa katoa, ko era i te
raru iti rawa pea ka iti ake i
te nuinga o te waa. Kua tino
akiakihia ahau e Ken e te ara o
to maatau whakapiri kua mahi te
punaha tirotirohanga i roto i
tenei pakarutanga hou mai ana.

English: 
target groups - those with
cold and flu symptoms, people
who are contact or connected
to places where people have
had COVID-19, and the contact
of con tact. By Monday, we
will be close to completing
full two rounds of testing for
those at the front lines,
those working in MIQ, those
who are border-facing and the
regular testing regime will be
put in place from there
unwards. We'll release further
information about that before
the end of this week, as to
who will need to be tested on
an ongoing basis and how
frequently they were be
tested. As I've indicated
before, that will be based on
a risk assessment for their
roles. Those at the highest
risk will be tested most
frequently, those at the
lowest risk less frequently.
I've been very Ken urged by
the way our contact tracing
system has worked in this
latest outbreak and we've seen
that the improvements that
we've made during the gap
between our two outbreaks have

Maori: 
Kite ana ko nga whakapainga i
mahia e matou i te wa o te. Ko
te rereketanga i waenga i o
tatou pakarukaru e rua kua kaha
kawe mai i a maatau nga hua pai
ake i tenei waa me nga hua tere
i tenei wa engari kaore e taea
e taatau te okioki i o taatau
mahi i konei. Me titiro tonu
taatau me pehea e pai ake ai ta
tatou mahi. He tino koa ahau ki
te ripoata kua neke atu i te 2
miriona nga tangata o Aotearoa.
Kua haina inaianei mo te
taupnga COVID Tracer, no
reira 50% o te taupori 15 neke
atu ranei nga tau. Ko te
tangohanga tiketike me te
whakamahinga o te taupnga he
ara he mea nui ake ka
whakataurite ana koe ki etahi
atu whenua. Kei reira hoki a
raatau papaapene, kei hea te
whakamahinga o te mahi noa. Hei
tauira n Ireland, ko te
tangohanga 37% me o matou hoa
noho tata puta noa i te poka i
Ahitereiria, kua tata ki te 24%
te tangohanga. Na ko te piki
ake ki taua taumata tetahi mea.
He tino harikoa ahau mo te mea
pono ka hiahia tatou kia anga
whakamua atu. Kua kite matou i
te piki haere o te maha o nga
matawai, te tokomaha o nga
tangata te whakamahi i nga
waehere QR hei matawai i roto
me waho. E 2. 1 miriona nga
tirotirohanga i tuhia puta noa
i te motu inanahi. Ko etahi o

English: 
delivered us much better
results this time around and
faster results this time
around but we can't rest on
our laurels here. We always
need to look at how we can do
better. I'm very pleased to
report that more than 2
million New Zealanders have
now signed up for the COVID
Tracer app, so that's 50% of
the population aged 15 and
over. The high uptake and the
usage of the app is even more
significant when you compare
it with other countries where
they also have an app, where
the use of that is voluntary.
For example n Ireland, uptake
has been 37% and our
neighbours across the ditch in
Australia, the uptake has been
about 24%. So getting that
uptake up to that level is
something that I'm very
pleased about and of course we
want to see that go further.
We've seen an increase in the
number of scans, the number of
people using QR codes to scan
in and out.
There were 2.1 million scans
recorded nationwide yesterday.
Some of that reflects the fact
that more Aucklanders were out

Maori: 
enei e whakaatu ana i te nui
ake o nga tangata o Akarana i
tenei wiki i te wiki kua hipa.
Kei te taapirihia he mahinga
hou ki taua taupnga me te
maha atu o nga hiahia kia
taapirihia tata nei. Te kaha mo
nga taangata ki te taapiri i o
raatau nama NHI ka taapirihia i
roto i te whakahou e whai ake
nei, hei te timatanga o tera
wiki. Ka taea hoki e taatau te
whakarite matohi whakapiri na
mena ka. Me whakatupatohia
tetahi ki te mea kei a raatau
ano. Whakapiri atu ki tetahi
keehi COVID-19, ka taea e
taatau te tuku atu taipitopito
kiko ake mo tera. Mena kaore
ano nga tangata i tango i te
waahanga, tena koa. Mena kaore
ano kia whakahoutia e raatau ta
raatau waahanga, na me mahi.
Tera timatanga o te wiki e whai
ake nei ka waatea ana te
whakahoutanga hou. Kei te mahi
ano maatau i etahi atu taapiri
me etahi atu mahi mo taua
taupnga, pera me taku i
korero ai. Ka uru ki te tiro
mena he hangarau Nihokikorangi
ranei. Me hanga ki roto i te
taupnga me mena kei i a
maatau tena te kaha ki te rapu
i etahi atu hangarau

English: 
this week than last week.
New functionality is being
added to that app and more
will be added very shortly.
The ability for people to add
their NHI numbers will be
added in in the next update,
due out early next week. We'll
also be able to customise
contact alerts so if somebody
needs to be alerted to the
fact that they may have come
into contact with a COVID-19
case, we can send them more
specific details about that.
If people haven't downloaded
the app, please do. If they
haven't updated their app
recently, then do that
beginning of next week when
the latest update is now
available. We're also working
on further additions and
further functionality for that
app, as I mentioned. That will
include looking at whether
Bluetooth technology should be
built into the app and whether
we should have that capability
for it to detect other
Bluetooth technology nearby
and automatically record that.
Of course, the app does not
replace the fact that manual
tracing and our contact

Maori: 
Nihokikorangi tata ana me tuhi
aunoa i tera. Ae ra, kaore te
taupnga e whakakapi i te meka
te rapu-a-ringa me ta maatau
punaha tirotiro kia noho tonu
hei poutokomanawa o a tatou
mahi ki konei. Ana ko ta matou
e tono nei ki nga tangata katoa
o Niu Tireni kia mahi inaianei
he ri. I nga wa katoa,
ko te pupuri i o nekehanga.
Mena kaore koe i te whakamahi i
te waahanga, ka tono atu maatau
ki a koe kia mau o o nekehanga
i tetahi atu huarahi. He pai te
whakapiri atu ki te rapu me te
taea e nga tangata whakaputa
korero hei tautoko wawe i tena
mahi. Tetahi o nga mea ka taea
e tatou katoa ki te mahi kia
kore ai e piki haere o nga
taumata whakatupato a meake
nei. Na mena kaore o waea
atamai, ka tino koa ahau mea
atu ki a koe kei te
whakaputaina e maatau tetahi
pukapuka iti maau Ka taea te
whakamahi. Ka tohaina enei mai
i te wiki e heke mai nei. Ka
tukuna koe ki te pupuri i to
raarangi pepa pukapuka. Kei te
mohio matou e hiahia nui ana
etahi o o taatau kaumatua kia
mau ki te rekoata pepa o tehea
waahi. Ka tohaina nga pukapuka
nei ki nga kete 10. Kei te tono
maatau ki nga umanga e mahi ana

English: 
tracing system will continue
to be the backbone of our
efforts here. And what we're
asking all New Zealanders to
do now is the same as it's
been all along, which is to
keep track of your movements.
If you're not using the app,
we ask you to keep track of
your movements in some other
way. Having good contact
tracing and having people able
to produce information to
support that process as
quickly as possible is one of
the things we can all do to
avoid further escalation of
alert levels in the future. So
if you don't have a
smartphone, I am very pleased
to tell you that we are now
producing a little booklet
that you can use. These will
be distributed from next week
onwards. They allow you to
keep a manual paper diary.
We're aware that some of our
senior citizens in particular
prefer to keep a paper record
of where they have been. These
booklets will be distributed
in packs of 10. We're asking
organisations working in the
community to order copies of
these that they can
distribute, so particularly

Maori: 
i te hapori ki te tono kape. O
enei ka taea e raatau te
tohatoha, ina koa ko nga
kaumatua nga roopu taangata, me
etahi atu waahanga o te hapori
kei reira te hangarau. Kaore
pea i te tika, i te panui ranei
i tangohia ka taea e raatau hei
whakahaua Tuhinga ka whai mai.
paetukutuku nz ka taea te tono
me te tohatoha ki nga mema o te
hapori. Kei te haere tonu i o
maatau whakamatautau mo te
kaari COVID. I purihia tera i
te wa e mahi ana maatau i te
nuinga. I te pakarutanga o te
ra, engari ko te whakawakanga
ki Rotorua ka mutu ka wehe ke
te. Ana kei te hoki
mai ano te whare tuuturu ki te
huarahi-ka kite ai tatou i roto
i nga wiki e whai ake nei. I
roto i enei katoa, ko te tiaki
i nga korero ake a te tangata.
He mea nui na te COVID Tracer
app e tuku ki nga taangata te
whakahaere i a raatau he
raupaparorohiko ake kaore matou
e hiahia ki te huri i tera. He
kupu whakamutunga mo nga iwi o
Akarana, e harikoa ana ki a
raatau. Ti'amâraa, a ka titiro
whakamua ki to ratou wiki

English: 
senior citizens' groups, and
other parts of the community
where technology may not be as
appropriate or as read ily
taken up and they can be
ordered from coved19.govt.nz
website and they can be
ordered and distributed to
members in the community.
We are also continuing with
our trials of the COVID card.
That was put on hold as we
dealt with the most recent
outbreak but the trial in
Rotorua ended in managed
isolation and quarantine
facility is getting back on
track-and-we'll see in the
next few weeks. In all of
this, the protection of
people's personal data is
important so the COVID Tracer
app gives people control of
their own data and we don't
intend to change that. A final
word for the people of
Auckland, who are enjoying
their freedom, and will be
looking ahead to their first
weekend at level 2, our
message here is if we still...
We still need you to keep

English: 
following guidance, keep
wearing your masks and if you
are travelling outside of
Auckland, either during the
week or during the weekend,
please act as if you were at
home. So take your Auckland
Alert Level 2.5 with you
wherever you go. So if you are
having to travel out of
Auckland or have travel plans
over the weekend in
particular, please behave as
if you were still in Auckland.
So still keep your... Don't be
attending gatherings of more
than 10, stick with those
rules that are in place in
Auckland at the moment and
we'll keep everybody safe.
I'm happy to take questions.
>> REPORTER: You said this
morning that you haven't
sought any advice yet for
Level 1 and you said this
morning that you haven't been
asked for any. Does that mean,
with the review coming up on
Sunday, that Level 1 is not on
the table for next week?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: No, it's
just literally we haven't got
to that part yet. As I also
indicated, I think, the advice
for those Cabinet meetings
tends to come together at the
last minute so we're drawing

Maori: 
tuatahi i. Taumata 2, ko ta
maatau korero i konei mena ka
... Kei te hiahia tonu matou ki
a koe kia mau ki te whai i nga
aratohu, kia mau ki o koe
. O kopare ana mena kei
te haerere koe ki waho o
Akarana, peera i roto i te
wiki, i nga ra whakataa ranei,
tena koa kia rite ki a koe i te
kinga. Na tangohia to Matohi
Akarana Te Papa 2. 5 ki a koe i
nga wahi katoa e haere ai koe.
No reira mena e haere ana koe
ki waho o Akarana ka haereere
ranei nga mahere mo nga rangi
whakataa nei, tena koa kia ahua
i Akarana tonu koe. Na kia mau
ki to ... Kaua e haere ki nga
huihuinga neke atu i te 10,
piri tonu. Ena ture kei te
whakatakotohia ki Akarana i
tenei wa a ka whakaorangia e
tatou nga tangata katoa. He
harikoa ahau ki te patapatai.
REPORTER: I kii koe i tenei ata
kaore koe i rapu he tohutohu
ano mo te Taumata 1 a i kii koe
i te ata nei kaore ano koe kia
i tonohia mo tetahi. Ko te
tikanga o tenei, me te arotake
e haere ake nei i te Ratapu,
tera Taumata 1 kaore i te teepu
mo tenei wiki? CHRIS
HIPKINS: Kao, ko te mea pono
kaore i tae atu ki a maatau
tera waahanga ano. Ka rite ki
taku i whakaatu ai, ki taku
whakaaro, mo nga tohutohu mo

Maori: 
era Kaunihera ko nga huihuinga
ka hui tahi i te meneti
whakamutunga ka pena te tuhi i
nga korero hou me nga korero o
tenei wa ma tatou e whakatau
nga whakatau. Kua tae mai nga
tohu arowhai kua oti te tohu
mai e te Pirimia te huarahi me
te wa e mahi ana maatau i nga
mea, nga korero mo era. E kaha
ana ki te whakakao tata 36
haora i mua o te hui.
REPORTER: Ka haere a Akarana ki
te Taumata 2 me te motu katoa
ki te Taumata 1? Koina ra nga
whakaaro i tenei waa? CHRIS
HIPKINS: Kare ano kia whakatau
i a maatau. Ko nga whakataunga
mo tetahi whakarereketanga ki
nga taumata mataara hou kaore
ano k i hangaia. Ae ra, e
arotahi ana taatau ki te tiki i
nga mea katoa e mahi ana i te
Kaupae 2. 5 mo Akarana ka
pupuri tonu i te taumata 2 mo
te te toenga o te whenua ka
mutu, ko te tikanga, ka tirohia
e maatau i nga wa katoa. Ki te
raka he aha pea nga
whakatikatika mo era taumata.
REPORTER: Kei te pupuri nga
kaimahi i tetahi kaitiaki
honore i tenei ra. He aha te
kupu i puta i a koe mo Rawiri?
Kei te pouri koe kei te haere
atu ia? CHRIS
HIPKINS: Ka mihi ahau ki a ia

English: 
on the most recent and
up-to-date information at the
time that we make those
decisions. We have got
check-ins that the Prime
Minister has signalled all the
way along and when we do
those, the information for
those tends to be drawn
together about 36 hours before
the meeting takes place.
>> REPORTER: Would Auckland go
to Level 2 and the whole
country to Level 1? Is that
the thinking at the moment?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: We've not
made those decisions yet.
Decisions about any change to
neuter alert levels have not
yet been made. Obviously,
we're focused at the moment on
getting everything functioning
at Level 2.5 for Auckland and
keeping it functioning at
Level 2 for the rest of the
country and then, of course,
we'll check in regularly to
lock at what further
adjustments might be made to
those levels.
>> REPORTER: Staff are holding
a guard of honour today. What
message do you have for David?
Are you sad he's leaving?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: I thank him
for his service to the people
of Canterbury. He's a
respected member of the

Maori: 
mo tana mahi ki te iwi o
Waitaha. He mema whai mana ia
mo te DHB o Waitaha. Kei te
hiahia matou ki a ia te mea pai
mo meake nei. Kei te whakatuhia
e te poari tetahi roopu
whakahaere waatea. Kei te mahi
tahi matou me ratou. He mea nui
kia whai waahi te roopu
whakahaere hou ki te whakatika
me te oma, e mohio ana koe, e
tino piri ana taku mahi me te
papa. Kaore ano kia kiia he
panui mo runga i tenei ra i tua
atu o te korero e hono tonu ana
matou. I reira te
Kaiwhakahaere-Tianara i tera
wiki kua paahitia e matou he
korerorero i ahu mai i tera.
Kua korero ano ahau ki etahi
atu taangata whai waahi kaore e
taea e te LkJhLkJh DHB, te
whakatau i o raatau whakaaro.
Kei te hiahia ahau ki te haere
ki reira haere ai ka tae au ki
te te whai waahi ki te mahi i
tena ka taea e au te korero ki
etahi taangata i runga ano i te
whenua.
REPORTER: I nga DHB, he aha i
wehe ai a Michel Harris? Ko ia
te rangatira o te Manatu Hauora
mo te DHB. I panaia katoatia
ia? CHRIS
HIPKINS: He kaupapa kaimahi
tera mo te mahi minita. Kaore
pea e tika te haere ki konei.

English: 
Canterbury DHB. We wish him
the best for the future. The
board are putting in place an
interim management team. We're
working closely with them.
It's important that the new
management team gets the
opportunity to get up and
running and, you know, I'm
working very closely with the
board. I haven't got any
further announcements to make
on that today other than the
fact that we've been keeping
in contact. The
Director-General was there
last week and we've had a
conversation based on that.
I've also been speaking to
other people involved in the
cannot LkJhLkJh DHB, getting
their views. I intend to go
and visit there myself when I
get the opportunity to do that
so I can have some dialogue
with people on the ground
there as well.
>> REPORTER: On DHBs, why has
Michel Harris left? She was
the Health Ministry boss in
charge of DHBs. Was she pushed
at all?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: That's a
staffing matter for the
ministry. It's probably not
appropriate to go into here.
>> REPORTER: Why hasn't the

English: 
resignation from seven execs
from the CDHB prompt an
inquiry?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: It wouldn't
prompt inquiry but it has
prompted government action.
We've been active there and
keeping in close contact.
Obviously when you're dealing
with employment matters,
there's a limit to the amount
you discuss those in public.
>> REPORTER: But this is not
employment matters. It's
executives.
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: Yeah, look,
Canterbury DHB clearly has
strained relationships down
there at the moment. It's
something I'm conscious of and
something we're working to try
and support the resolution of.
>> REPORTER: What's the
ministry's role in that?
>> ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD: We've
got an important role. That's
why I went down last Thursday
and met with the board, met
with each of the seven
executive members who are
leaving and spent some time
listening to them. I met with
a large group of clinicians to
hear their perspective so I
can provide the Minister with
good advice and also that we
can play a constructive role.
As the Minister said, that is
primarily focused on
supporting the board and the
new management team that is
coming in to ensure the DHB is
delivering services for the
people of Canterbury and the

Maori: 
REPORTER: He aha te take i kore
ai te wehenga mai i te
tokowhitu? ko nga kaitohutohu o
te CDHB ka tuku pakirehua?
CHRIS
HIPKINS: Kare e pai te uiui
engari na kua akiaki i te mahi
a te kawanatanga. Kua kaha
matau ki reira ka piri tonu. He
maarama ka aro ana koe ki nga
mahi he take, he rohe kei te
korerohia e koe mo te iwi.
REPORTER: Engari ehara tenei i
nga take mahi. Ko nga
kaiwhakahaere. CHRIS
HIPKINS: Ae, tirohia, Waitaha
DHB maarama kua kaha te
whanaungatanga i reira i tenei
wa. He mea e maarama ana ahau
me tetahi mea e mahi ana maatau
ki te whakamatautau me te
tautoko i te whakataunga o.
REPORTER: He aha te mahi a te
minitatanga? ASHLEY
BLOOMFIELD: He mea nui ta
maatau mahi. Koina ahau i heke
ai i te Taite kua hipa, ka
tutaki ki te poari, i tutaki ki
ia o nga mema tokowhitu kua
wehe atu ka whakapau wa ki te
whakarongo ki a raatau. I
tutaki ahau me tetahi roopu
haumanu nui ki te whakarongo ki
o raatau. Tirohanga kia taea ai
e au te tuku tohutohu pai ki te
Minita me te mea hoki ka taea e
taatau te mahi hei hanga. E ai
ki te Minita, ko te kaupapa nui
tera ki te tautoko. Te poari me
te roopu whakahaere hou e haere
mai ana. Te whakarite kei te

English: 
wider South Island.
>> REPORTER: David Mates has
said that the if Hadley
Hospital was built on time,
the did. HB would be breaking
even because it's cost them
$60 million in the last year
outsourcing surgery and
patient care. What are your
thoughts on that?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: The advice
we've had from the Ministry of
Health and the Treasury does
not support that assertion.
>> REPORTER: He also said that
population-based funding for
the region has declined
despite Canterbury's
population growing more than
the national average. Do you
know why there's been that
decline?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: Look, I know
there are a number of claims
about Canterbury that have
been made in recent days. I
haven't had a chance to go
through every one of them line
by line but I have looked at
the advice from the Ministry
of Health and the advice from
the Treasury about
Canterbury's overall position.
Bearing in mind that
Canterbury now accounts for
about a third of all DHB
deficits around the country
and that is unsustainable.
There are serious financial

Maori: 
tukuna e te DHB nga ratonga mo
nga tangata o Waitaha me te
whanui o Te Waipounamu.
REPORTER: Kei a David Mates
tetahi ka mea mena i hangaia te
hohipera o Hadley i te wa tika,
ka mahia e te. Ka pakaru noa te
HB na te mea$ 60 miriona te utu
ki a ratou te whakamutunga tau
outsourcing pokanga me te
manawanui tiaki. He aha o
whakaaro mo tera? CHRIS
HIPKINS: Ko nga tohutohu i puta
mai i te Manatu o te Hauora me
te Taapuna kaore i te tautoko i
taua korero.
REPORTER: I kii ano ia ko nga
tahua taupori-taupori kua heke
te rohe ahakoa te taupori o
Waitaha te tipu ake i te tau
toharite o te motu. Kei te
mohio koe he aha te take i heke
ai te heke? CHRIS
HIPKINS: Titiro, e mohio ana
ahau he maha nga nga kereme mo
Canterbury i mahia i enei ra
kua hipa. Kaore au i whai waahi
ki te tirotiro i a raatau katoa
raina ia raina engari kua
tirohia e au nga tohutohu a te.
Te Manat Hauora me nga
tohutohu mai i te Taonga mo te
tuunga o Katapere. Kei te
maumahara ki nga kaute a
Waitaha mo te a. Tuatoru o nga

Maori: 
kohinga DHB katoa o te motu,
kaore hoki e tau. He nui nga
take putea e tika ana hei
whakatika. Kei te mohio ahau he
nui te take o etahi o era i
tautohetia e etahi e uru ana ki
te DHB o Waitaha. Kua mahi ahau
i roto i era katoa ka haere
tonu taatau mahia tena engari
ae, tera ano etahi panoni e
tika ana kia tae mai mo
Waitaha. Ma te maarama, kaore e
taea e raatau te rere tonu i
nga momo takao. Kei te mohio
pea raatau ki te whara o etahi
atu DHB puta noa i te motu.
CHRIS
HIPKINS: Whakatika i te tuara,
Ka hoki mai ano ahau ki a koe i
roto i te 
REPORTER: Mo nga keehi i tae
mai ma Inia ma Fiti, i te mea i
a raatau nga tuhinga e whakaatu
ana COVID-kore i te wa i eke ai
raatau, me pehea te
whakamaarama i a raatau nga
whakamatautau pai i te ra 3?
CHRIS
HIPKINS: Ko te mea i korerohia
e matou i nga wa katoa ko te ra.
3 me te ra 12 te whakahaere
whakamatautau ko te mea pakari
rawa atu ma tatou I Niu Tireni.
Kua tirohia e maatau nga mahi
pai o te ao. Ko te raru o te
whakamatautau i mua i te

English: 
issues there that need to be
addressed. I'm aware that the
reason for some of those is
hotly contested by some
involved in the Canterbury
DHB.
I've been engaging in all of
that and we'll continue to do
so but yes, there are some
changes that need to come for
Canterbury. Clearly, they
can't keep running up the
sorts of deficits that they
are, potentially, you know, to
the detriment of other DHBs
around the country.
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: Up the back,
I'll come back to you in a
minute.
>> REPORTER: On the cases that
arrived by India via Fiji,
given they had documentation
showing they were COVID-free
when they boarded, how do you
explain them having positive
tests on day 3?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: The thing
we've always said is the day 3
and day 12 testing regime is
the most robust we can have
for New Zealand. We've looked
at best practice
internationally. The problem
with a pre-departure test, as
I've gone through before, is
it doesn't account for the
fact that you could be exposed
during your travel, and during

English: 
any transit during your travel
and it also doesn't allow for
the fact that, you know, you
could get... You could just be
early in your incubation
period when you're leaving and
LkJhLkJhLkJhLkJh you'd get the
false reassurance of a
negative test before you leave
but could show up positive in
day 3 tests here. Our system
is designed to assume that
everybody who comes across the
border could have COVID-19 and
we treat them that way and
then we have a testing regime
that continues to treat them
that way until such time as
we're absolutely confident
that they don't.
>> REPORTER: The people,
though, that were denied
boarding to that flight
because they didn't have
negative tests, so that's 10
people who are not in our
quarantine facilities, is
there merit in having the
pre-boarding test?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: That's not a
New Zealand requirement. That
may well be a requirement of
the airline. It's not a
requirement in New Zealand.
We've got... We're quite
confident of our testing
regime when people get to New
Zealand and we've looked at

Maori: 
wehenga atu, i pa ki ahau. I
mua, kaore he korero mo te meka
i taea e koe. Kua kitea i to
haerenga, ana i nga
whakawhitinga katoa i te wa o
to. Haerere ana kaore ano hoki
e whakaae kia, ko koe mohio, ka
taea e koe te tiki ... Ka
tiimata koe i te wa wawe i te
wa e whakauru ana koe kei te
haere koe ka LkJhLkJhLkJhLkJh
kei te he koe. Te whakamana i
te whakamatautau kino i mua i
to haerenga engari ka taea
whakaatu pai i nga ra 3 o nga
whakamatautau i konei. I
hoahoahia ta maatau punaha ki
te whakaaro ko nga tangata
katoa e kite ana ko te rohe ka
taea te COVID-19 ka penei ta
maatau korero ki a raatau ana
ka whai taatau whakahaere
tikanga whakamatautau tonu ta
maatau. Ratou peera tae atu ki
te wa i tino maia ai tatou e
kore e ratou.
REPORTER: Ko nga taangata,
kaore i whakaaehia kia eke. Ki
taua rerenga na te mea kaore o
raatau whakamatautau kino, na.
10 nga taangata kaore i roto i
o maatau waahanga tuuturu, he
painga kei roto i te
whakamatautau i mua i te
urunga? CHRIS
HIPKINS: Ehara tena i te hiahia
o Niu Tireni. Akene he
whakaritenga na te kamupene
rererangi. Ehara ko te
whakaritenga i Niu Tireni. Kei
a maatau ... E tino whakapono
ana taatau ki to taatau
whakahaere whakamatau ka tae

English: 
whether or not we should have
a pre-departure testing system
in place and it's not
something at the moment that
the advice and the evidence
would suggest we should make
mandatory.
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: I'll come
back to you in a minute.
>> REPORTER: Megan Woods
indicated yesterday that
advice she received was that
MIQ was highly unlikely to be
the source of the Auckland
outbreak. Can either of you
confirm whether that's also
your understanding?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: Look, we
simply don't know where the
source of the current
outbreaks were and no links
have been established that
link it back to MIQ. It is a
puzzle and we may never know
exactly how it made it into
the community.
But we have not seen any
genomic link or any
epidemiological link back to
MIQ or back to the border.
>> REPORTER: She said the
genomic testing indicated it
was highly unlike to show
that. You can comment on that?

Maori: 
atu nga tangat Niu Tireni a
kua tirohia e maatau mena ranei
kaore. He punaha whakamatautau
i mua i te wehenga atu kei te
waahi tika ana ehara i te mea i
tenei waa ko nga tohutohu me
nga e kii ana nga taunakitanga
me whakahau e maatau. CHRIS
HIPKINS: Ka hoki mai ano ahau
ki a koe i roto i te meneti.
REPORTER: I whakaaturia e Megan
Woods inanahi taua tohutohu. I
whiwhi ia ko te MIQ kaore pea i
te ahu mai Tuhinga o mua. Ka
taea e tetahi o koutou te
whakau mena ko to maatauranga
ano hoki tena? CHRIS
HIPKINS: Titiro, kaore maatau e
mohio ki hea te putake o nga
pakarutanga o naianei kaore ano
kia hono whakapumautia tena
hono hono ki MIQ. He panga
engari kaore pea pea tatou e
mohio tika pehea tana mahi ki
te hapori. Engari kaore ano
matou kia kite i tetahi hononga
honohono, i tetahi mate uruta
ranei hono atu ki MIQ ka hoki
ranei ki te rohe.
REPORTER: I kii ia ko te
whakamatautau genomic i tohu he

Maori: 
tino nui rereke ki te whakaatu
i tena. Ka taea e koe te korero
mo tera? ASHLEY
BLOOMFIELD: O nga Tuhinga ka
whai mai. Tuhinga o mua MIQ-pai
kua taea e te SR. Raupapa,
kaore tetahi o nga whakaaro i
ahei te rite ki te momo taarua
Tuhinga o mua. Engari ko tera
te haurua noa iho o nga tauira.
I taea ki te mahi i te katoa o
te raupapa raupapa ranei o. I
roto i nga waahanga waahanga
waahanga- ka whakaaro ahau mo
te 15. I taea e ratau te
raupaparorohiko hei whakaatu
ehara. He orite ki te momo momo
taapiri kua tae mai ki a tatou
i te roopu o Tamaki Makaurau
. Kaore ano, kaore pea,
ka kore e taea te hono. Hoki ki
tetahi Tuhinga o mua kaore ano
kia raupapa.

English: 
>> ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD: Of the
samples from previous
MIQ-positive cases that the SR
has been able to sequence,
none of thinks have proven to
be similar to the subtype of
the virus that we've found in
this cluster.
But that is only about half of
the samples that they have
either been able to do a full
or partial sequencing of. In
the ones that are partially
sequenced - I think about 15 -
they've been able to do enough
of the sequence to show it
isn't the same as the subtype
we've got in the Auckland
cluster but it doesn't yet,
and may never, rule out that
it could be linked back to one
of the samples that haven't
been sequenced yet.
>> REPORTER: But that doesn't
mean it's highly unlikely,
just that there's no evidence
yet.

Maori: 
REPORTER: Engari ehara i te kii
he tino nui kaore pea, heoi
kaore ano he taunakitanga.
ASHLEY
BLOOMFIELD: Ko te maha o nga
whakamatautau kaore e kitea he
hono, he wha tr pea.
Kare i taea e taatau te hono
honohono i tetahi atu ki tetahi.
I haere mai i roto i tetahi
whare MIQ-
REPORTER: E pai ana koe. E kii
ana kaore pea i ahu mai i nga
mahi rererangi he kaimahi
tauranga ranei? CHRIS
HIPKINS: Titiro, kaore rawa he
taunakitanga hei whakatu. Kei
hea- he hononga marama ki hea,
no reira he mea ngaro tonu.
REPORTER: Kua raru ranei nga
ota rohe hau na te mea i kiia
nga ture whakahoutia i te wiki
kua hipa inaianei? CHRIS
HIPKINS: No. Ka maumahara koe
kua whakatakotoria e matou he
ota whakamatau ki te mahi i te
katoa o te katoa. Kua oti tena
ka whakatauhia he tuarua ota e
hiahia ana kia whiua tuarua nga
tangata katoa ki te e hiahia
ana kia whakatauhia he punaha
whakahaere. Ko te tikanga ka
panui, ka tukuna ranei e matou
nga korero mo tera. Hei te
paunga o tenei wiki ka ahatia

English: 
>> ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD: The more
tests we don't find a link,
reduces that likelihood. We
haven't been able to
genomically link it type to
someone who came through an
MIQ facility -
>> REPORTER: Would you say
it's highly unlikely that it
came from an airport work or
port worker?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: Look, there
really isn't any evidence to
establish where - a clear link
anywhere, so it is a bit of a
mystery.
>> REPORTER: Has there been
complications with the air
border order because the rules
were supposed to be updated a
week ago now?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: No. You'll
remember we put in place a
mandatory testing order to do
a full sweep of everybody.
That was completed and then we
put in place a second order
requiring a second sweep of
everybody with the intention
to have a regularised system
in place. Basically we'll be
announcing or releasing the
details of that by the end of
this week as to what happens
from next week onwards in

English: 
terms of the regularised
testing regime.
>> REPORTER: About the rules
around aircrew you said would
be updated or clarified.
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: They'll be
released this week as well.
The key figure is we've been
talking through and working
with the airlines around the
overall implications for any
changes that we... For the
changes that we're intending
to make there, and just making
sure that all of the logistics
are in place to support that.
What we don't want to do is
stop flights in and out of New
Zealand inadvertently. We need
flights to be coming in and
out of New Zealand for
LkJhLkJhLkJhLkJh. We get our
medical -- for freight. We get
our medical supplies through
air freight. We need to make
sure the arrangements we have
in place around aircrew - and
bearing in mind there's the
flight crew, the people who
fly the planes, the cabin crew
for those carrying passengers
- making sure what the risk
regime there is as tight as
possible.
Our first priority there is
protection first, which is to
make sure that people don't

Maori: 
nga wiki ka whai ake i runga i
te tikanga whakamana
whakahaere.
REPORTER: Mo nga ture mo te
waka rererangi i kii koe ka
whakahoutia ka whakamaramatia
ranei. CHRIS
HIPKINS: Ka tukuna ano ratou i
tenei wiki. Ko te mea nui kua
korerohia e maatau te mahi tahi
me nga kamupene rererangi huri
noa i te maarama nui mo tetahi
whakarereketanga e ... Mo nga
whakarereketanga e hiahia ana
matou ki reira, me te tika. Te
whakarite kia tau katoa nga
raina ki te tautoko i tera. Ko
ta maatau kaore e hiahia ki te
mahi ko te aukati i nga rerenga
ki roto, ki waho h ohorere. E ta
rere nga rererangi ki roto, ki
waho o Niu Tireni mo
LkJhLkJhLkJhLkJh. Ka whiwhi
hauora maatau- mo nga utanga.
Ka whakawhiwhia e maatau ki a
maatau taputapu hauora na te
utaina o te rangi. Me ata
whakarite e tatou nga
whakaritenga e pa ana ki a
tatou mo te waka rererangi- me
te mahara kei reira nga kaimahi
rererangi, te iwi ko wai ka
rere i nga rererangi, nga
kaimahi o te whare mo te hunga
e kawe ana phihi- te
whakarite he aha te ture
morearea kei reira i te kikii
ka taea. Ko ta maatau kaupapa

Maori: 
tuatahi ko te tiaki tuatahi, ko
te mahi. Tino e kore te iwi e
whiwhi COVID-19 i te tuatahi, a
ka mutu ko te whakamtautau te
raina tuarua mo te whakapae i
reira. Kei te pirangi taatau
kia mohio kei te pakari nga
whakahaere e rua ka taea.
REPORTER: Ka nui ke te
whakarereketanga o nga ture?
CHRIS
HIPKINS: Ka puta etahi
whakarereketanga. Kaore e taea
e au te korero atu ki era i
tenei waa engari ko taatau tonu.
Te tuku i era i roto i te wiki
ka uru mai etahi o raatau. Kia
kaha tonu te haere, ka whai
waahi whakatinana etahi.
REPORTER: Ko te putake o te
tautau, ko te Minita o te
Hauora e whakapau kaha ana ki
te rapu kia mohio? Kua whakaae
ranei koe kaore e kitea e
maatau? Ana he pai mena kaore
ano kia kitea? ASHLEY
BLOOMFIELD: He tino hiahia ki
te rapu. Te puna me te mahi
tonu me te ratonga hauora a
rohe. Me te SR na te mea ko nga
korero mate uruta me te ko te

English: 
get COVID-19 in the first
place, and then testing is
obviously the second line of
defence there. We want to make
sure that both of those
regimes are as robust as
possible.
>> REPORTER: Will there be
significant changes to the
rules?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: There will
be some changes. I can't tell
you those at the moment but we
will be releasing those later
in the week and some of them
will come into force
straightaway and some will
have an implementation
timetable.
>> REPORTER: The origin of the
cluster, is the Ministry of
Health devoting significant
resource to trying to find it
out? Or have you basically
accepted we'll never find it
out? And is it OK if we never
find it out?
>> ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD: We are
very keen to find out the
source and we continue to work
with the regional health
service and the SR because the
epidemiological information
and the genomic sequencing are
critical in helping us find
that out. We are keen to find

Maori: 
whakariterite genomic te mea
nui hei awhina i a maatau ki te
mohio. E hiahia ana matou ki te
rapu i whea mai i taea ai e
matou. Tautuhia he waahi ka
kati he aha pea te waahi ranei
te waahi ranei he aha te take.
Kei te tino hiahia matou ki te
rapu i te putake, penei tonu
kei te hiahia matou ki te
pupuri i tenei pakarutanga.
REPORTER: I te ngaru tuatahi i
waenga o Poutu-te-Rangi me
Pipiri, nga hokinga mai. Puta
noa te rohe i te utu mo te
5,000 ia 30 ra. E 30 nga ra
katoa o enei. I roto i te wa o
Hurae ka tiimata te pakarutanga
mai o Akarana. I taarua ki te
10,000 ia 20 ra, ki inanahi,
kua piki ake te maha o nga
keehi pai puta noa i te rohe
233% ki te 100. Ki to whakaaro
me whakaaro te kaawana ki te
mahi. Kua mahi a Kuini, a kua
puritia e ia nga nama o te
hunga whakahoki mai ia ra. Wiki
ranei kaore i te kaha ki te
aukati i nga kaikawe korero
horoi ki hoki mai ki te
kaainga, engari kia noho
haumaru a-iwi o Niu Tireni?
CHRIS
HIPKINS: Ko te mehua mo tatou
ko te kaha o to tatou

English: 
out where it came from so we
could identify a gap and close
what that gap may have been or
address what the issue may
have been. We're absolutely
intent on trying to find the
source, just as we are intent
on containing the outbreak.
>> REPORTER: During the first
wave between March and June,
returnees came across the
border at the rate of 5,000
every 30 days. This included
30s totive days. During the
period in July leading to the
Auckland outbreak this had
doubled to 10,000 every 20
days and as of yesterday, the
number of positive cases
across the border has
increased 233% to 100. Do you
think the government needs to
consider doing what Queensland
has done, and kept the number
of returnees per day or week
not as a pressure to exclude
newsers washing to return
home, but to keep New
Zealanders here safe?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: The measure
for us is the capacity of our
quarantine and our isolation
facilities.
And so we are running slightly

Maori: 
whakamoatanga me a maatau
waahanga wehe. Na kei te rere
haere maatau i raro i te kaha.
Ka waiho e maatau tetahi
waahanga moepuku ki reira mena
ka hiahiatia. A ka kite koe i
whakamahia e maatau taua mea
hei neke i nga keehi pai i waho
o te hapori ki te whao. Ko te
tikanga hoki LkJhLkJhLkJh mena
he tupono ohorere tatou. Te
tono kia kaha maatau ki te
whakatutuki i tera waahanga he
kaha i roto i o maatau waahanga
whakahaere kia pai ai te tuku
mo tera. No reira kei te maia
matou ki a matou whakaritenga
mo tena, hoatuhia, hoatu ranei.
Tango, tata ki te 7,000 i nga
wa katoa i roto i te waa he
wehenga kua whakahaerehia, he
waahanga ranei mo te
quarantine. Kua tirohia e
maatau mena he mea ke ka taea e
taatau whakapiki i taua kaha
mena ranei me heke taua kaha.
Kei te maia matou ki te noho
tata ki te 7,000 i tenei wa nga
tiaki me nga kounga kounga ka
taea te pupuri me taua roopu.
REPORTER: Winston Peters had a
bit of a crack at te whakahaere
a te Kaawanatanga i te COVID-19
i tenei ata, araa te rohe. He
pai ke ki te whai Minita penei
i te kaumatua o tenei e kaha

English: 
below capacity. We leave a bit
of a buffer in place there for
if we need it and you would
have seen we used that to move
positive cases out of the
community into quarantine. It
also LkJhLkJhLkJh means if we
have sudden unexpected demand
that we need to cater for that
there is some capacity in our
managed eyelation facilities
in order to allow for that. So
we're confident in our
arrangements around that, give
or take, around about 7,000 at
any given point in time in a
managed isolation or
quarantine facility. We've
looked at if there are other
things we can do to increase
that capacity or whether that
capacity should be decreased.
We're confident sitting at
around 7,000 at the moment
that the safeguards and
quality controls can be
maintained with that group.
>> REPORTER: Winston Peters
had a bit of a crack at the
Government's handling of
COVID-19 this morning,
specifically the border. Is it
helpful to have a Minister so
senior in this government
actively criticising the
government at a time like
this?

Maori: 
whakahe ana te kaawanatanga i
te kaawanatanga i te waa penei
ana? CHRIS
HIPKINS: Titiro, ko te mutunga,
ki ahau nei, no Niu Tireni i
konei te angitu angitu. Ko
matou tetahi o nga whenua paku
nei o te ao i haere 100 ra
kaore he hapori e tukuna ana
kua tae mai matou i eke wawe te
eke ki runga ake o tenei hei
tono ki a Ilkley ka taea e
maatau. Kaore he mea penei i te
whakautu 100% wairangi
COVID-19. He huaketo kei te
mutunga o te ra. Ana ka ako
tonu taatau ka mahi tonu tatou
i nga mea katoa e taea e tatou
ki te tango me te whakaiti i te
morearea morearea. Engari ka
raru tonu.
REPORTER: I he ia i ana
whakapae? CHRIS
HIPKINS: Kaore au e whakaae ki
a ia, kaore.
REPORTER: Minita, me nga
ripoata mo nga akonga kaore i
te hoki mai. Ki te kura me te
rapu mahi ma o ratau whanau kei.
E raru ana i raro i te
COVID-19, kei te aha te mahi a
te Kawanatanga. Te whakarite
kia whiwhi mahi pai aua akonga?
CHRIS
HIPKINS: He maha nga putea kei

English: 
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: Look,
ultimately, I think New
Zealand's overall success
speaks for itself here. We're
one of the few countries in
the world that went for 100
days without any communities
transmission and we've managed
to get on top of this
reasonably quickly and ease
restrictions as request Ilkley
as we possibly can. There is
no such thing as a 100%
foolproof COVID-19 response.
It's a virus at the end of the
day. And we continue to learn
and we continue to do
everything we can to remove
and reduce residual risk. But
there will always be risk.
>> REPORTER: Was he wrong in
his criticism?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: I don't
agree with him, no.
>> REPORTER: Minister, with
reports of students not
returning to school and
finding work for their
families who are struggling
under COVID-19, what is the
Government doing to ensure
that those students are
getting sustain able
employment?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: We've got a
number of financial support
mechanisms in place for
families experiencing
financial hardship, including

English: 
the COVID income relief
payments, the JobSeeker
payments available and
additional hardship grants
available through work and
income, for example, and of
course we've put money into
the wage subsidy to keep
people in work in the first
place.
Where young people are moving
on from school for whatever
reason - not all kids stay to
the end of Year 13 and finish
the ACA Level 3. Kids do start
to leave schooling in those
upper year levels. My advice
to them and the thing I'm
encouraging them to do is
choose a job which
LkJhLkJhLkJhLkJh you a career
pathway, particularly one
where you can earn and learn
at the same time, so an
apprenticeship or some other
form of on-job training would
be my advice.
We're working closely with the
tertiary commission and
industry organisations to get
good-quality careers advice to
those young people so they
know what's available to them.
>> REPORTER: The review over
the weekend, did you get the

Maori: 
a maatau. Tikanga tautoko kua
whakaritea mo nga whanau e raru
ana i te uauatanga o te tahua,
tae atu ki te whiwhinga COVID.
Utu awhina, kei te waatea nga
utu JobSeeker me nga
whakawhiwhi uauatanga taapiri e
waatea ana ma te mahi me te
moni whiwhi, hei tauira, me te
akoranga kua putea taatau moni
ki roto utu tahua hei pupuri i
te iwi ki te mahi i te tuatahi.
Te waahi kei te neke whakamua
nga taiohi mai i te kura.
Ahakoa he aha te take- kaore
nga tamariki katoa e noho ki te
mutunga o te Tau 13 ka
whakaotihia te ACA Taumata 3.
Ka tiimata nga tamariki ki te
whakarere i nga kura o era
reanga o te tau. Ko aku
tohutohu ki a raatau me te mea
e akiaki ana ahau kia mahi
ratou he kowhiri i tetahi mahi
na LkJhLkJhLkJhLkJh koe he
huarahi mahi, ina koa. Tetahi
ka taea e koe te whiwhi me te
ako i te wa ano, na he akonga
tetahi atu momo whakangungu
whakangungu-mahi ranei hei
tohutohu maku. Kei te mahi
ngatahi matou me te komihana
tuatoru. Me nga umanga umanga
kia whiwhi i nga mahi
kounga-pai. He kupu tohutohu ki
era taiohi kia mohio ai raatau
ki nga mea e waatea ana ki a

Maori: 
raat
REPORTER: Ko te arotake i te
mutunga o te wiki, i whiwhi koe.
Te korero i tino hiahia koe kia
puta i te mutunga? ASHLEY
BLOOMFIELD: Ae, pai, kei te
mohio ahau ko te korero i
hurihia ana he rite ano te
korero. Katahi ano ka kii te
Minita. Ko te tangata ka whai
tohu, i Akarana, i etahi atu
waahi ranei, me
whakamatautauria. He
whakamatautau ano mo nga
taangata koretake kua mahia
ehara i te mea tika i Akarana
engari huri noa i te motu hei
waahanga o. Ta maatau tirotiro
mo te wiki e rua kua pahure nei
ki taku mahara i puta taua
korero me te pera hoki, e ai ki
ta te Minita, he nui nga
whakamatautau o te whakap atu
ki Akarana.
REPORTER: I hiahia koe kia
whakamatautauria nga taupori
morearea. I te hauauru me te
tonga o Tamaki Makaurau, kaore
ano kia tae atu taua korero?
ASHLEY
BLOOMFIELD: I tino puta ki nga
rohe katoa papa hauora. I
tukuna atu e au ki tetahi reta

English: 
message that you actually
wanted to get out in the end?
>> ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD: Yes,
well, I understand that the
message was changed and the
message is the same. The
Minister just reiterated that.
Anyone with symptoms, in
Auckland or elsewhere, should
be tested. There was some
testing of asymptomatic people
being done not just in
Auckland but around the
country as part of our
surveillance over the last
week or two and I think that
message got out and likewise,
as the Minister said, there's
a lot of testing of contact in
Auckland.
>> REPORTER: Did you want
populations at risk to be
tested in west and South
Auckland and that message
never got to them?
>> ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD: It
certainly went out to all the
district health boards. I sent
it out in a letter to them.
That was guiding the offer of
testing at general practice. I
should also say that we were

English: 
wanting to test some
asymptomatic people as part of
our surveillance and this is
what we did as we came from
Alert Level 3 to Alert Level
2.
>> REPORTER: What were Maori,
Pacifica, seniors, those who
are immuno-compromised -
that's who you wanted to test,
right?
>> ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD: That
message went out through a
change of channels and the
letter I sent of the earlier
in the week. I'm confident the
message was getting to those
offering the testing and that
was guiding the offer of tests
in general practice and also
in CBACs.
>> REPORTER: When is Cabinet
relooking at all the alert
levels? And when will the
public know the outcome of
that?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: Cabinet look
at them regularly for as long
as the alert levels are in
place and we've got another
Cabinet meeting I think on
Friday and we'll continue to
review as necessary and the
Prime Minister will make
appropriate announcements
based on that.

Maori: 
ki a raatau. I arahi te tono i
te whakamtautau i te tikanga
mahi. Me kii atu ano hoki kei
te hiahia maatau ki te
whakamatautau. Etahi taangata
kore tohu hei waahanga o ta
maatau tirotiro me tenei. Te
mea i mahi i a maatau mai i te
Matohi Taumata 3 ki te Matohi
Taumata 2.
REPORTER: What were Maori,
Pacifica, seniors, era ko wai
hoki te hunga e raru ana- koira
taau e hiahia ana kia
whakamatauria, tika? ASHLEY
BLOOMFIELD: I puta te korero he
panoni hongere me te reta i
tukuna e au o mua i te te wiki
E whakapono ana ahau kua tae te
korero ki te hunga e tuku ana i
te te whakamatautau me te arahi
i te tuku whakamatautau i nga
mahi whanui me nga CBAC hoki.
REPORTER: Ahea ka rewa ai te
Kapeneta i nga taumata mataara
katoa? Anahea hoki te iwi
whanui ai e mohio ana ko tehea
te mutunga? CHRIS
HIPKINS: Ka tirohia tonu ratou
e te Rnanga Minita mo te mea.
I te mea kua tau nga taumata
whakatupato a he Kaapeneta ano
ta tatou. Hui Ka whakaaro ahau
i te Paraire a ka haere tonu ta
maatau arotake i nga wa e tika

English: 
>> REPORTER: Dr Bloomfield,
there was a case on Saturday
where you couldn't find the
link. Have you been able to
identify that?
>> ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD: My
understanding is yes. The only
two cases now where we haven't
been able to find either a
genomic or epidemiological
link are the case of the MIF
worker and also the one case
of someone who had been in a
managed isolation facility
some months ago and the
challenges in trying to get
the fell genome of that person
sequenced. Initially it looked
like it was linked to this
outbreak but ESR hasn't been
able to fully sequence the
genome. In both those cases,
there is no further spread.
>> REPORTER: On the COVID
Tracer app, 2 million people
have downloaded it and
yesterday you had roughly 2
million scans, roughly per
scan per person per day. How
effective is that really?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: Obviously
averages are a dangerous thing

Maori: 
. , ka puta i te Pirimia
nga panui e tika ana i runga i
tena.
REPORTER: Dr Bloomfield, he
keehi i te Rahoroi i reira
kaore i kitea e koe te hono.
Kua taea e koe te mohio ki
tera? ASHLEY
BLOOMFIELD: Ko taku maarama he
ae. Ko nga keehi e rua inaianei
kaore ano i kitea e maatau. A
genomic epidemiological ranei
Tuhinga o mua. Te MIF kaimahi
me. Ano hoki ko te keehi kotahi
mo te tangata i wehe ke i a ia.
Whare i etahi marama kua pahure
ake me nga wero ki te tarai
whakaritehia te genome hinga o
taua tangata. I te timatanga he
rite te hono ki tenei
pakarutanga engari ESR. Kaore i
taea te tino whakaraupapa i te
ira. I era keehi, kaore he
horapa atu.
REPORTER: I runga i te
taupnga COVID Tracer, e 2
miriona nga tangata. I tangohia
mai ana inanahi he tata ki te 2
miriona nga matawai kua tirohia
e koe ia karapa mo ia tangata

English: 
here.
We're all quite active people
in this building and so many
of us will scan a lot of times
in a day. A lot of people will
go to work, scan in at work
and may not do other scans in
a day. So the key things is we
want people to be keeping good
records of who they come into
contact with. I think the more
people that use the app, the
more people who use it
regularly, the more of a tool
it will be.
I'll come back to you in a
minute.
>> REPORTER: On the testing
goals of around 10,000 a day
and looking at 70,000 over
seven days, you said those
targets were more or less -
could you just -
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: I think it
was 63,000 and something over
that particular period of time
but then there's the next day
- it depends on where you
actually end up counting from
and to. So I think it was
about 67,000 we got every.
-- we got overall.
>> REPORTER: How many days was
the 10,000 tests reached?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: It was an
overall target. Some days we

Maori: 
ia ra. He pehea te whai hua o
tena? CHRIS
HIPKINS: Maamaa ko nga toharite
tetahi mea kino i konei. He
tangata tino kaha tatou katoa
ki tenei whare ana he maha o
taatau ka matawai i nga wa maha
i te ra. He maha nga taangata
ka haere ki te mahi, ka
tirotiro i nga mahi kaore pea
mahi i etahi atu tirotiro i te
ra. Na ko nga mea nui ko te
hiahia kia purihia e nga
taangata nga rekoata pai mo te
hunga i whakaponohia e ratou.
Ki taku whakaaro ko te nuinga o
nga tangata e whakamahi ana i
te taupnga, ka mah ko wai e whaa
i nga waa katoa, ka nui ake he
taputapu. Ka hoki ano ahau ki a
koe i roto i te meneti.
REPORTER: I runga i nga
whaainga whakamatautau mo te
10,000 a. Ra me te titiro
70,000 mo nga ra e whitu, i kii
koe. Ko ena whaainga he nui ake
iti iho ranei- ka taea noa e
koe- CHRIS
HIPKINS: Ki taku whakaaro he
63,000 tera me tetahi mea i
roto i taua waa. O te waa
engari kei kona te awatea- ka
whakawhirinaki ki whea ka mutu
ka tatau koe mai i a. Na ki
taku whakaaro ko te 67,000 pea
i a maatau katoa.- i eke maatau
ki te katoa.

English: 
were up around, you know, in
that 10,000 to 12,000 breaker
and others we dropped down - I
think our lowest point was
about 8,000 in a day, over the
weekend, where we tend to get
lower test results.
>> REPORTER: Dr Bloomfield,
the draft arrangement for a
travel bubble was being drawn
up with Cook Islands last
month and the Prime Minister
hoped it could be in place by
Christmas. Have any plans come
across your desk yet? Do you
know where that's got to?
>> ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD: No plans
have come across my desk.
Health is just one of the
agencies that's been heavily
involved in the planning for
that bubble. That has been
paused, of course, while we've
been managing this outbreak in
the last three weeks.
>> REPORTER: Are you
comfortable with Aucklanders
attending a conference in
Queenstown this weekend?
>> ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD:
Minister, you might want to
comment?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: No is the
simple answer to that. We're
asking Aucklanders to continue
to take their alert level
restrictions with them. So the
aleft level restrictions in
Auckland suggest you shouldn't

Maori: 
REPORTER: E hia nga ra i tae ai
nga whakamatautau 10,000? CHRIS
HIPKINS: He whaainga katoa. I
etahi ra i te taha tonu matou,
mohio koe, i roto i tera 10,000
ki te 12,000 te pakaru me etahi
i whakataka e maatau- Ki taku
whakaaro ko to maatau iti rawa.
Te tohu i tata ki te 8,000 i te
ra, i te mutunga o te wiki, i
reira matou ahu ki te tiki i
nga hua whakamtautau raro.
REPORTER: Dr Bloomfield, te
whakaritenga tauira mo i
hangaia he mirumiru haerenga me
Kuki Airani i tera marama ana
ko te Pirimia i tumanako ka
taea te whakarite i te
Kirihimete. Kua puta ke mai
tetahi mahere i to tpu? Kei
te mohio koe ki hea tena?
ASHLEY
BLOOMFIELD: Kaore he mahere i
puta i taku tpu. Ko te hauora
tetahi o nga umanga kua kaha
uru atu i roto i te whakamahere
mo taua mirumiru. Kua tatari
tera, wa, i a maatau e
whakahaere ana tenei
pakarutanga i roto i nga wiki e
toru kua hipa.
REPORTER: He pai ki a koe te
haere mai o nga Tamaki Makaurau
he huihuinga i Queenstown i
enei rangi whakataa? ASHLEY
BLOOMFIELD: Minita, kei te
hiahia pea koe ki te whakaputa
korero? CHRIS
HIPKINS: Kaore he whakautu
ngawari ki tera. Kei te tono
matou ki nga Tamaki Makaurau
kia mataara tonu herenga
taumata ki a ratou. Na ko nga

Maori: 
aukati i te taumata poka ke i
Akarana te whakaatu mai ki a
koe kaua e haere ki nga
huihuinga neke atu i te 10 nga
taangata. Mena kei te haerere a
Tamaki Makaurau ki etahi atu
rohe o te motu, kia rite nga
ture ki a raatau. Ae ra kei te
tono maatau mo te atawhai mai i
a Tamaki Makaurau. Kei te tono
atu maatau ki nga Tamaki
Makaurau kia mahi i ta raatau
mahi, pera i a ra i mahia i
roto i nga wiki e toru kua
hipa, hei pupuri i nga toenga o
te whenua haumaru. Kaore rawa e
tu he punaha 100% e mana ana ka
tae mai ki enei momo o nga
aukatinga no reira kei te tono
maatau ki nga taangata kia mahi
i te mea tika.
REPORTER: Ka mahi te Kaunihera
i tetahi Arotake Taumata
tirotiro i te Paraire ka
whakamohio ai ki te iwi? CHRIS
HIPKINS: Ki te korero pono,
kaore e taea e au te mahara he
aha te hui. I te Paraire mo te
mea kaore au i te tuunga ki te
whakatutuki panui inaianei. Kei
te mohio ahau he huihuinga
Minita kei runga i taku
raarangi mo te Paraire.
REPORTER: Ko era pukaiti i
korerohia e koe i te timatanga,
nga pukapuka-a-ringa, he
koreutu? CHRIS
HIPKINS: Ka waatea ratou, ae.
kairipoata: pai.

English: 
attend gatherings of more than
10 people. If Aucklanders are
travelling to other parts of
the country, the same rules
should apply to them.
Obviously we are asking for
goodwill from Aucklanders. We
are asking Aucklanders to play
their part, as they have done
over the last three weeks, in
keeping the rest of the
country safe.
There is never going to be a
100% enforceable system when
it comes to these types of
restrictions so we're asking
people to do the right thing.
>> REPORTER: Will Cabinet do
an Alert Level review on
Friday and make it public?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: To be
honest, I can't remember what
the meeting on Friday is for
so I'm not in a position to
make that announcement now. I
know there's a Cabinet meeting
on my diary for Friday.
>> REPORTER: Those booklets
you were talking about at the
beginning, the manual ones,
are they free?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: They will be
free, yes.
>> REPORTER: OK.
>> REPORTER: Do you have any
update on how many cases there
are that have yet to be

Maori: 
REPORTER: He whakahou ano taau
mo te maha o nga keehi. Kaore
ano kia pangia e te mate uruta
ki te tautau? Kei kona te
tangata o Te Tai Tokerau me te
roopu Mount Roskill. ASHLEY
BLOOMFIELD: Kaore he ... Ae ra,
kaore au i te paku ki runga i
taku mahunga engari ka uru atu
taatau tetahi mea i te whakahou
i tenei ra. Ki taku whakaaro, i
runga ake i taku mahunga, e ono
nga keehi e ono ranei nga roopu
Tuhinga o mua. I reira ko te
kaiwhakaako whanui me te tera
roopu i moata wawe mai ana he
keehi i tera i Botany, i ...
Koina tetahi o nga keehi i
panuitia inanahi ana. He roopu
iti huri noa i tena engari me
whakauru e taatau he whakahou i
roto i te whakahou tuhituhi.
REPORTER: Kei te tautoko koe i
te taurite utu mo nga tapuhi
hauora tuatahi? Ana ka
whakawhiwhia e te kawanatanga
etahi atu tahua? CHRIS
HIPKINS: Kaore au e uru atu nga
whiriwhiringa umanga, i te mea
kaore koe e hiahia ki ahau. Ko
te mutunga, he mahi takitahi ta
raatau mahi. Ko ratou, e mohio
ana koe, ehara ko te
kawanatanga to ratou kaituku
mahi. Ana he maha ano nga

English: 
epidemiologically linked to
the cluster? There's the North
Shore person and the Mount
Roskill group.
>> ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD: There
are no... Actually, I don't
have it off the top of my head
but we will include something
in the update today. I think,
off the top of my head, there
are six cases or six groups of
cases. There was the original
general practitioner and that
grouping which came up quite
early and there is a case that
was located in Botany, which
we... Which was one of the
cases announced yesterday and
there is a small grouping
around that but we'll include
an update in the written
update.
>> REPORTER: Do you support
pay parity for primary health
care nurses? And will the
government provide additional
funding?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: I'm not
going to get involved in the
industrial negotiations, as
you would not expect me to.
Ultimately, they are employed
by private practices. They
are, you know, the government
is not their employer. And so
there are a variety of factors
that those employers take into

English: 
account in their negotiations.
In general, the government
supports pay parity. Equal pay
for equal would, is a basic
premise we support. Having
said that, in primary care, we
not are the employer of the
nurses. I'll give you the last
question.
Did you have your hand up
before?
>> REPORTER: I didn't,
actually. You said this
morning that there were two
cases that came from the
maintenance worker at
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if they were -- Rydges. Do you
know if they were colleagues
or family members?
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: From memory,
they were family members.
>> ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD: Let's
double-check. I don't want to
say something different to
you, Minister, I think that
despite testing of family and
work colleagues, including
serological testing of work
colleagues to see if he could
have got the infection from
one of them, there were no
other cases but we'll confirm
that.

Maori: 
ahuatanga e kawea ana e era
kaitukumahi ki roto i a raatau
korero. I te nuinga, e tautoko
ana te kaawanatanga i te utu mo
te utu. Ko te utu taurite mo te
wira rite, he kaupapa noa tenei
e tautokohia ana e maatau. I te
korerotanga atu, i te manaaki
tuatahi, ehara ko matou te
rangatira Tuhinga o mua. Maku e
whakahoki te patai
whakamutunga. I totoro atu to
ringa i mua?
REPORTER: Kare ahau i tino. I
kii koe i te ata nei e rua nga
keehi i ahu mai te kaimahi
tiaki i LkJhLkJhLkJhLkJh. Kei
te mohio koe mena- Rydges. Kei
te mohio koe he hoa mahi ratou,
he mema ranei no te whanau?
CHRIS
HIPKINS: Mai i nga mahara, he
mema o te whanau. ASHLEY
BLOOMFIELD: Kia tirohia-rua.
Kaore au e hiahia ki te ki atu
ki a koe, Minita, ahau.
Whakaarohia ahakoa te
whakamatautau i nga whanau me
nga hoa mahi, tae atu ki te
whakamatau i te hoa mahi mo nga
hoa mahi kia kite mena ia i
taea pea te mate e tetahi o
era, i reira kaore he keehi atu
engari ka whakatuturutia e
maatau. chris
hipkins: pai. Nga mihi, katoa.

English: 
>> CHRIS HIPKINS: OK. Thanks,
everybody.
