Parliament press gallery journalist returns negative Covid-19 PCR test

February 15, 2022
The Beehive, New Zealand's Parliament.

A Parliament press gallery journalist has returned a negative Covid-19 PCR test after previously testing positive following a rapid antigen test.

On Monday afternoon 30 members of the media took rapid antigen tests.

It comes after 981 new Covid-19 community cases in New Zealand were announced by the Ministry of Health on Monday.

"Once again, the further increase in new cases today [Monday] is another reminder that, as expected, the highly transmissible Omicron variant is now spreading in our communities as we have seen in other countries," the ministry said.

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