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Siupolu Tavui had been working as a nurse co-ordinator at a Counties Manukau Health orthopaedic ward when she was called onto the Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) team in June With a long-time interest in public health, Tavui was drawn to the yearlong contract for an operations manager at ARPHS\'s COVID-19 response \'How do you explain to a family with eight children that they may be best in separate hostel rooms at a quarantine facility for two weeks, rather than altogether at home?\' But the cultural connection \'doesn\'t take away the frustration and worry\' of families, who continue to feel there is a stigma to contracting the virus - despite director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield\'s message that the virus is the problem, not people, she said
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