Residents at Remuera Gardens Retirement Village are being offered a Covid test after a staff member went to work while infectious with Covid-19.
All staff are now being tested and residents are also being given the opportunity to do the same.
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In a statement Remuera Gardens said the risk of Covid spreading in the retirement village was low due to high levels of vaccination and the use of PPE.
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"Remuera Gardens has communicated with all staff, residents and resident families, for those in its care home, advising of this situation and are providing appropriate support."
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Some 98 per cent of staff and 96 per cent of residents are double vaccinated. The Covid-positive staff member had one dose of the vaccine.
It comes as there are 60 new cases of Covid in the community today - 57 in Auckland and 3 in the Waikato.
