ARDERN ADMITS ‘FAILURE’ AS THIRD CASE RECORDED
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.