No new community cases of COVID-19, two new cases in managed isolation.
There are 2 cases of COVID-19 in managed isolation.
There are no new cases in the community, nor any linked to the Auckland February cluster.
New border case details
The two new cases of COVID-19 arrived in the country on February 18th from the United Arab Emirates and are in managed isolation in Auckland.
Both these people arrived in the same travel bubble from the United Arab Emirates.
One previously reported case has recovered. The total number of active cases in New Zealand is 51.
The total number of confirmed cases is 1,994.
The total number of tests processed by laboratories to date is 1,651,035.
On Friday, 10,347 tests were processed. The seven-day rolling average up to yesterday is 9,651 tests processed.
Auckland February cases contact tracing update
Other than the known cases which have been reported, all close contacts associated with the cases households, school and travel group to New Plymouth have returned negative results.
Contact tracing has identified a total of 128 close contacts associated with all cases in this cluster, aside from the positive cases which have previously been reported.
Of these, 120 of the close contacts have returned a negative test result.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) are awaiting test results for eight people.
Seven of these people are from the medical clinic and relate to Case C, which is considered a low risk exposure event, and one is a workplace contact of Case E.
As at 8.00am this morning, a total of 31 close contacts and 1,423 casual plus contacts have been identified at Papatoetoe High School.
The number of casual plus contacts has decreased as these people were not at school at the time of exposure.
Of the casual plus contacts (that is other students and staff at the school), 1,396 have returned negative results, there is one positive (Case E), and 26 results are still to come.
The Ministry of Health has reminded all students and staff at the school to please stay home and have a test if they haven’t already.
School is expected to return on Monday 22 February. Close contacts at the school will not be able to return until they have been advised by public health that they can.
As part of the source investigation, LSG Sky Chef staff have also been tested.
All nine contacts in the laundry have returned negative results. Of the 444 people in the wider working environment, 387 are negative and 56 results are still to come (1 positive, Case B).
Testing centres
There are 9 community testing centres available for testing across Auckland this weekend– they are in Takanini, Wiri, Otara, Botany, Balmoral, New Lynn, Henderson and Northcote, as well as the dedicated testing site at Papatoetoe High School.
The pop-up testing centre at the school is open over the weekend and nearby community testing centres are operating extended hours to ensure the school community has convenient access to testing. A COVID-19 test is free wherever you go.
Wastewater
Further results from ESR's wastewater testing have been received and results have found no evidence of COVID-19 in wastewater.
Samples taken on 18 February at four Auckland sites including a site near Papatoetoe and at sites in Christchurch and Hamilton have all returned negative results.
Historical cases
Since January 1, there have now been 30 historical cases, out of a total of 184 cases.
NZ COVID Tracer
A total of 1,847,877 scans were recorded for the 24 hours to 1:00pm this Friday, with an average of 1,396,010 scans made each day this week.
NZ COVID Tracer now has 2,664,459 registered users.
All time poster scans have reached 188,044,780 and users have created 7,631,825 manual diary entries.
