![Green Bottles, Alan's Ark & COVID Odyssey: Alan Grace's vir[tu]al journey](https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/animation_500_kcijq1n6.gif)
A group from Motueka who flew to Auckland from New Plymouth on 13 January have tested positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 and it’s not known how they caught it. The group attended a wedding, a funeral, an amusement park, the Sky Tower, and passed Omicron on to an Air NZ crew member who then flew on another four flights.
NZ moved to Red under the Traffic Light system at 11.59 last night. See:
https://covid19.govt.nz/traffic-lights/life-at-red/
We would expect that if the source of the infection was the wedding or funeral, even more Omicron cases would have occurred in Auckland by now.
Since more than 10 days have now elapsed since the flight to Auckland, we suspect that the initial source is likely to be on the flight back home (or at the airports or the initial flight to Auckland).
Perhaps the Air NZ crew member is a possible source or else perhaps the person who infected the crew member on the flight (if the crew member was not already infectious before the flight) also infected one of the cases.
What do you think?
People can infect others days before they become symptomatic.
Time will tell.
Green Bottles, Alan's Ark & COVID Odyssey: Alan Grace's vir[tu]al journey 