Recently, the Government announced several new measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

You can find out more about these below.

Reinfection and isolation

The B.5 variant of Omicron is predicted to become the dominant strain in the country in the coming weeks and is a different variant to what most New Zealanders caught the first time around. This means the rate of reinfection is likely to increase.

The Government is now asking anyone experiencing COVID-19 symptoms 29 days or longer, following their initial infection, to test. Should they test positive they will need to isolate for seven days.

This is a change from earlier advice which was that people would not need to re-test if they had tested positive for COVID-19 within the past 90 days.

Household Contacts who have had COVID-19 within 90 days will not need to isolate, unless they are symptomatic.

As a reminder, information about what to do if you test positive for COVID-19 can be found in the following documents:

COVID-19 second booster

A second COVID-19 booster is now available for everyone over the age of 50 and at-risk groups. Information about the second booster and how to access it is available on the Unite Against COVID-19 website(external link).

Bookings can be made through the Book My Vaccine website(external link).

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