6. Question No. 6—HealthDr SHANE RETI (National—Whangarei) to the Minister of HealthQuestion No. 6—Health6. Dr SHANE RETI (National—Whangarei) to the Minister of Health: What progress has he made around the testing of border workers and returnees for coronavirus? Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister of Health): Strong border controls are one of our key protections against COVID-19. Day three and day 12 testing—[Pauses to drink water]—too much talking—has been in place for returnees for some time. Mandatory testing is required for all workers at managed isolation and quarantine facilities as well as higher-risk workers at the ports of Auckland and Tauranga and the Auckland International Airport. In the three weeks starting 12 August 15010 tests from people staying in managed isolation have been processed 579 tests from people staying in quarantine have been processed 5136 tests from staff at airports and 4160 from staff at seaports have been processed and 4597 tests from staff working at managed isolation and quarantine facilities have been processed. That's a total of almost 30000 tests—I need to make these answers shorter. Can I also though remind the House that testing is far from the only control measure at our borders. Dr Shane Reti: How many people on flight AI1320 that arrived in New Zealand on 23 August have tested positive for coronavirus at day three given the ministry's media release five days after the flight arrived describing seven people from the flight who had tested positive? Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: Can I get the member to repeat the question again? SPEAKER: Yeah and I'm trying to link that very specific question to the general question. Dr Shane Reti: How many people on flight AI1320 that arrived in New Zealand on 23 August have tested positive for coronavirus at day three given the ministry's media release five days after the flight arrived describing seven people from the flight who had tested positive at day three? Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: That's a very specific question that I think in the context of the primary question I am not prepared to answer—I don't have the information to answer. Dr Shane Reti: Can he guarantee that the second round of port staff testing will be completed by Sunday and that he won't extend the deadline? Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: I've not been asked to extend the deadline yet. Dr Shane Reti: How many adults in managed isolation from 8 June to 18 July have not had a day three test given there's now a week from when the substance of this question was asked as a primary in this House? Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: As the member is aware they have been working their way back as I explained yesterday through what was a manual record—so it wasn't recorded in a database. They've been working their way back. It shows that back to I think it was about 18 July we got to yesterday 95 percent of people had had a day three test. Dr Shane Reti: Does he not know how many adults had not been tested at day three from 8 June to 18 July? Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: As I've said we have not been recording that information in one central place so work is under way to compile as much of that information as possible. The key protection that we have in place though is that nobody would have left managed isolation without a day 12 negative test. Dr Shane Reti: When he said in the House this time last week that the numbers simply don't support the claim that thousands of people had not been tested at day three since 8 June now that he knows some of the numbers is his answer still correct? Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: Yes because as I've said the data that's been compiled so far suggests that 95 percent of people did get a day three test. There are only a couple of hundred people who haven't and of course within that will be children there'll be people who for some medical reason could not be tested at day three or for some other—transit passengers. People who didn't actually stay in the country long enough to get a day three test will be within those numbers.