Calgary Herald

ARDERN ADMITS ‘FAILURE’ AS THIRD CASE RECORDED

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PERTH New Zealand Thursday recorded a third case of coronaviru­s in a week that has undermined trust in the government’s handling of the crisis following the early release of two British tourists with the virus from quarantine.

The new case, involving a man who flew from Lahore to New Zealand via Doha and Melbourne, comes after a series of blunders saw the two British sisters allowed compassion­ate leave from isolation. Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister, described the granting of leave to the sisters, who subsequent­ly drove across the country to see their dying mother, as an “unacceptab­le failure,” and has called in the military to manage the borders.

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