A grieving American woman who was allowed to attend her father’s wake just a day after arriving in Auckland was not tested before being granted a compassionate exemption, the Herald can reveal.
The case comes as the Government still can’t say today how many people were allowed out of quarantine – without being tested – before the rules were tightened last week. Government minister Megan Woods told Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking that was a number that health chief Ashley Bloomfield was working on.
The US woman, who the Herald has agreed not to name, said she had now tested negative for the virus and posed no risk to anyone as she mourned her dead parent.
The Herald revealed last week that people who attended the commemoration were shocked to learn the woman had only just arrived in the country from a coronavirus hotspot and feared they might have been exposed to the deadly virus.
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