Three test positive on PM’s trip

Three members of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s delegation to Singapore and Japan will have to halt their trip as they have tested positive for Covid-19. The three positive PCR tests are likely from historical connections, but Japan’s strict Covid19 border controls will see them barred from that country, where the delegation is travelling from Singapore today. NewZealand and Singapore do not bar people with historic infections who are showing faint positives, but Japan does. The three people are not media or either of the two ministers on the trip. About 50 people are on the trip, including two ministers, staffers, diplomats, air force crew and 12 top businesspeople. Ardern arrived in Singapore on Monday for her first trip overseas in more than two years.