Six cases of Covid-19 in two days in managed isolation
There are 6 cases of Covid-19 in managed isolation to report in New Zealand since Monday.
One of these cases is classified as historical and deemed not infectious.
There are no new cases in the community.
The latest travellers to test positive include a traveller from South Africa who tested positive on day 24.
hat person was within a travel bubble of a previously confirmed case reported on December 31. The infected person has been in the Auckland quarantine facility since the contact case was detected.
Another person who travelled from the United Kingdom tested positive on day 12. They arrived in New Zealand on December 29 via the United Arab Emirates.
The infected travellers came from South Africa, Britain, Zimbabwe, America and Russia.
Fourteen previously reported cases have now recovered. The total number of active cases in New Zealand is 76.
The total number of confirmed cases is 1,911 and the total number of tests processed by laboratories to date is 1,472,326.
On Tuesday, 4,451 tests were processed. The seven-day rolling average up to yesterday is 3,447 tests processed.
As indicated on Monday, genome sequencing results from the latest sequencing run by ESR are due today. A separate website update will be provided once this is received.
All travellers arriving into New Zealand - excluding Australia, Antarctica, and some Pacific nations - are now required to have both pre-departure and 0/1 tests and stay in their rooms until the result is known.
NZ COVID Tracer
NZ COVID Tracer now has 2,453,070 registered users.
Poster scans have reached 155,876,751 and users have created 6,299,397 manual diary entries.
The Ministry would like to remind all New Zealanders to keep each other safe and use the Covid Tracer app to scan QR codes and turn on Bluetooth functionality.
Using the Bluetooth functionality will allow you to receive an alert if you have been near another app user who tests positive for COVID-19. Find out more here.
