Jacinda Ardern warns hospitals to not let Covid patients have sex with visitors

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is famous for keeping her calm and a smiling face, even during the toughest situations. However, a silly question about a patient and a visitor having sex in hospital made it difficult for Ardern to not react strongly. Ardern and the director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield were giving daily Covid briefing recently.

A reporter, however, asked whether a patient and a visitor having “sexual relations” in hospital would be considered a “high-risk activity, in the current climate”. This question left the usually cool leader confused and shocked.

While Bloomfield said, “I think it is a high-risk activity, potentially, however I don’t know any of the details about that interaction,” Ardern quickly added that “regardless of the Covid status, that kind of thing shouldn’t generally be part of visiting hours, I would have thought.” The question was raised as apparently the Auckland district health board has been accused of allowing hundreds of visitors to see the Covid patients on a daily basis, and some of them might even have gotten involved in sexual relationships.

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While the allegation has not been proved right yet, this has come at a time when New Zealand is fighting a huge Covid outbreak due to the Delta variant. Several areas of the country are still under strict lockdown in a bid to control the spread of the deadly virus.

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