The board's medical officer of health Jonathan Jarman said the working theory is that the positive results can probably be traced to a visitor to the region. The results are very concerning because they suggest an infectious person was in the Stratford areas since the start of last month, Jarman said.
The board's Public Health Unit said it was aware there were several visitors to the region for the Taranaki Garden Festival. Meanwhile, another wastewater test in Napier has come back negative for Covid, but local health officials say the city's not out of the woods yet.
Hawke's Bay's medical officer of health Nick Jones said the negative result was encouraging, but it was too early to be complacent. Another wastewater sample was collected in Napier today, and results are expected later this week. Napier residents have criticised the "appalling communication and lack of action" from the local health board over Covid testing.
The Taranaki District Health Board has a Covid 'surge' plan in place that would enable it to cater for nine ventilated ICU patients and up to 60 in-patients. Ms Sansan said, following the signing of the MoA DPM further issued a Circular Instruction Number 5 of on February 17, calling on all lineagencies employing nursing officers to ensure implementation of the MoA and also informing Finance and Treasury to assist employing agencies in consultation with DPM to configure and allocate a code for the nurses Life and Medical Insurance subsidy on the payroll.
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