A worker at a managed isolation facility in Auckland has been sacked after a bedroom encounter with a returnee.
The employee at the Grand Millennium Hotel in Auckland's CBD lost their job after a 20-minute encounter with a person who was undertaking their mandatory 14 days of isolation.
MIQ head Brigadier Jim Bliss described the forbidden hotel liaison on January 7 as "incredibly irresponsible and extremely disappointing".
The hotel worker and returnee have both returned negative Covid-19 tests before and after the encounter. Bliss said health officials deemed the risk of spreading Covid in the community as negligible to low.
Broadcaster Dean Butler joins The Panel on The Weekend Collective to discuss this, along with more issues making news this week.
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