Anger after Auckland man who helped distressed woman finds out she has COVID-19

A good samaritan is in isolation and two officers have been stood down after a distressed woman taken to the Ōrewa police station last week was later found to be infected with COVID-19, Newshub reports. Roger Matson, a former police officer, stopped to help the woman who’d been “dumped on the side of the road with a bundle of clothes by a highly agitated male” on Thursday. Both were later found to be infected with COVID-19, and were meant to have been isolating at home together. “The biggest thing for me is the fact that there are COVID-positive people running around in the community,” said Matson. “I thought they’d be in MIQ but obviously that’s not the case.”