New Zealand airport worker tests positive day after bubble opens

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An Auckland airport worker has tested positive for Covid-19 a day after New Zealand opened a reciprocal travel bubble with Australia.

The case appears to be unrelated to the travel bubble though and flights with Australia have not been suspended.

Thousands of passengers flew between the two nations on Monday for the first time in more than a year.

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern said the infected person had been cleaning planes from “high risk countries”.

She told