Tauranga may have become the latest city to dodge a bullet, of the Delta variant of Covid-19.
Ninety-four workers at Port of Tauranga have had to get tested and isolate, after coming into contact with a container ship were crew later tested positive.Test results from 65 of them have come back this morning.
Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins told Mike Hosking  they've all tested negative, including both pilots.
“The pilots are the people who are probably most at risk, the people who go onto the ship and bring the ship into port. So, very encouraging to have negative results for both of them.”
Only nine of the 94 workers have been fully immunised, since the vaccination of border workers began six months ago.
Hipkins says it was always going to be a difficult process.
“If you think about a port that might have two ships pilots, if one of them says ‘well, I’m not willing to be vaccinated’ and we say that’s it you’re out, that port is shut at that point because you can’t run a port with only one pilot.”
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