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New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern tests positive for Covid-19

Vinayak Barot

FILE - In this March 21, 2020, file photo, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern holds up a card showing a new alert system for COVID-19 in Wellington, New Zealand. New Zealand has set itself an ambitious goal of not just containing the coronavirus, but eliminating it altogether. Experts believe the country could pull it off, thanks to its geography and decisive early actions by Ardern, who has put the country into a strict lockdown. But whatever happens, the country will continue feeling the effects of the pandemic, which has hobbled its vital tourism industry. (AP Photo/Nick Perry, File)

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New Delhi: The New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has tested positive for Covid-19 and will have to isolate for another week.

The officials in a statement said “Days after announcing the relaxation of the country’s tight border controls, Ardern developed symptoms on Friday evening and returned a positive test before another positive result from a rapid antigen test on Saturday morning. Her symptoms are said to be moderate.”

She will have to isolate herself until the morning of Saturday 21 May and will not be in parliament in the coming week when her government has two set-piece events in the emissions reduction plan on Monday and the budget on Thursday.

On the Covid, PM Arden said, “As I said earlier in the week, isolating with Covid-19 is a very Kiwi experience this year and my family is no different.” Her partner, Clarke Gayford, tested positive last Sunday, and Ardern has been in quarantine since then.

(Vinayak)