Close contact test results will be crucial to whether Auckland’s level 3 lockdown is extended beyond three days
- Written by Michael Plank, Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury
Fiona Goodall/Getty ImagesNew Zealand’s latest community cases, the first to be infected with the more infectious B.1.1.7 variant of COVID-19, have a plausible link to the border through one person’s workplace at LSG Sky Chefs, a business that deals with laundry and catering from international flights.
But it is not a definitive link....





