A person working in the Covid-19 crisis management center of the government of New Caledonia has been declared positive for the disease, requiring a reorganization of operations, authorities announced on Friday. " One of the two positive cases confirmed Thursday worked since March 22 at the government operational center (COG), a structure for coordinating the management of the health crisis in New Caledonia, " the executive said in a statement.
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An investigation by the directorate of health and social affairs is underway to identify all the people contacted for this positive case, particularly in the offices of members of the government and administrative services, but also among the volunteers who work at the COG. Several leaders including the president of the government, members of the civil security, the DASS or the high commissioner of the Republic could have to be placed in isolation, indicated to AFP a source close to the file.
A total of 18 cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in New Caledonia, where containment was extended Friday until April 13. The President of the Southern Province, Sonia Backés, announced that she was among the contact persons for the case detected at the COG and that she was in solitary confinement. She said that she had been tested negative at Covid-19.
The man tested positive, a " close collaborator " of Sonia Backès, had stayed in metropolitan France. He had undergone a first test, negative, before a second Thursday, positive.
