All 150 Logan Park High School students tested for COVID-19 have returned negative tests. As a precaution, those students were tested as they were identified as close contacts of the 12th case, a teenage student at the school.
The decision to test the 150 close contacts was made after a discussion with the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, the Ministry of Health's own Chief Science Advisor and the local Medical Officer of Health.
Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says these results indicate that the Dunedin cases were linked to overseas travel, rather than a possible community link. ‘This is reassuring for the local community and for our broader public health response.’ Secretary of Education Iona Holsted has