February 3, 2021
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Your locally-owned FREE Community Newspaper Queues for the Covid-19 testing station that was hastily put in place in Orewa on January 28 caused gridlock in nearby streets. At its peak the queue was estimated at more than 150 cars, and there was also walk-in testing.
Covid wake up call for Coast It was a return to mask-wearing and anxious faces for many people in and around Orewa last week, following the news that two North Aucklanders who tested positive for Covid-19 had visited several local shops and businesses. The father and his young daughter, together with an earlier Northland
case, are all thought to have contracted the more virulent South African strain of the virus after being in the same areas as an infected person at the Pullman Hotel. They were sent to quarantine at the Jet Park Hotel, while the mother was isolating at home. After the news broke, Orewa town centre was almost deserted on
Thursday, January 28 and queues for the pop-up testing station at Victor Eaves Reserve stretched right around the park, from the Florence Avenue entrance back along West Hoe Road to the Centreway Road roundabout, causing gridlock. However, apart from the odd horn beep and off-road continued p2
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