Wellington: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Saturday, he was very isolated after contacting someone infected with Coronavirus.
Exposure comes on flights from Kerikeri to the largest auckland city.
Governor General of New Zealand, Cindy Kiro also on January 22 flights and also entered insulation.
The two women were in the northern region to conduct several filmmakers ahead of New Zealand’s national day, Waitangi Day, on February 6 “The prime minister did not show symptoms and felt fine,” his office said in a statement.
“In line with the Ministry of Health’s advice he will soon be tested tomorrow and will isolate until Tuesday.” Health officials register a dozen flights as exposure events on Saturday, the possibility of indications that one or more of the crew was infected.
Officials say the sequencing of the genome will be completed on Sundays and is expected to show that infected people have an Omicron variant.
New Zealand has managed to stick or contain a virus for most of the pandemic, and has reported only 52 virus deaths among the 5 million population.
But the Omicron variant outbreak began to survive and is expected to develop rapidly over the coming weeks.
About 77 percent of New Zealand is fully vaccinated, according to our world in the data.
That number rose to 93 percent of those aged 12 years and over, according to New Zealand officials.
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern Isolat After Exposure to Covid Virus
