Ministry of Health had no idea Air NZ's highest-risk crew were staying in Auckland CBD hotel
Gawd, one is becoming as bad as the other.
The secret CBD stays come after a debacle where Air New Zealand told high-risk crew that they could leave the airline's new dedicated quarantine hotel - the Grand Windsor in downtown Auckland - to exercise.
"That clearly imposes risk of transmission," University of Otago epidemiologist Dr Michael Baker told Newshub.
The Ministry of Health thought the same. It scrambled to change its guidelines to stop crew leaving.
But the change to the guidelines came after the secret stays at the Ramada. Air New Zealand's assured the Ministry it didn't let crew staying there out to exercise but it wouldn't explain the two sets of rules for the two central city hotels.