https://www.rnz.co.nz/assets/news/248376/eight_col_1.jpg?1605141480 Minister of Health Chris Hipkins says he is hopeful a lockdown can be avoided after a community case of Covid-19 surfaced in Auckland yesterday. Minister of Covid-19 Response Chris Hipkins says he is hopeful after investigations into the mystery community case. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone He told Morning Report preliminary results from genome sequencing suggest the woman’s case is linked to a recent Defence Force cluster. “That’s looking pretty encouraging. We won’t get the final result of that until later on this morning but it is looking more likely that we will be able to identify a link with the defence group that we’re also dealing with, that will be very very helpful if we can do that.” The minister said there were a few more pieces to the puzzle to come, but that enough information would be available to make a decision this afternoon on whether to ...
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