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# Border Staff Testing Plan Revealed in New Government Documents
- URL: https://goodoil.news/border-staff-testing-plan-revealed-in-new-government-documents/
- Published: 2020-10-09T19:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-09T04:24:52.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: COVID-19, Election 2020, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

**Editorial Note:* I wonder if this is why Ardern wanted people to vote early, and labour ops were busy on twitter trying to discredit National this week? Did they know this dump of documents was coming?*

Newly released documents show **500 out of an estimated 7000** border and managed isolation staff were tested for Covid-19 in the first week of August.

Five days later, the first Covid-19 cases in the [new Auckland cluster](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/423735/ashley-bloomfield-on-testing-of-border-staff-i-don-t-think-there-s-been-a-failure?ref=goodoil.news) were reported.

The [government documents](https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/resources/proactive-release-2020-october/HR24-COVID-19-Testing-Implementation-Plan-10-August-....pdf?ref=goodoil.news) give a weekly summary of border work, following a Cabinet minute in July about testing border workers.\[…\]

It is not clear whether ministers saw the documents although one was attached to a Cabinet paper in July.

[Read the article in full here ](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/427978/border-staff-testing-plan-revealed-in-new-government-documents?ref=goodoil.news)and comment on it on *The BFD*