Covid-19 level 3 breaches not deliberate - Robertson

Published: March 1, 2021, 4:21 a.m.

Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson told Checkpoint he believes case N (mother of Case M) in the Papatoetoe Covid-19 outbreak is not related to family 2, so they could not have been in a wider bubble. Case M and a member of the second family went on walking together under alert level 3. Case N visited a gym soon after getting a Covid-19 test, while he had symptoms.  Robertson said he does not believe case M & N's actions were defiant or ideological. He has not seen any evidence that they were deliberately ignoring rules and said they have been co-operative.