Rising to challenge of a lifetime

In Late January, Auckland public health nurse Justine Paterson was pulled off her regular work in communicable disease control onto the Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) team responding to COVID-19 at Auckland airport Working at the airport, as well as monitoring the World Health Organization, Ministry of Health and Customs' fastchanging advice was "quite a change and quite a step up" for her professionally Health staff had to figure out quickly whether people without symptoms were infectious - still not clear - track people who had left hospital without permission, visit homes of patient contacts, while keeping safe