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The Ministry of Health reports that New Zealand has two new cases of COVID-19, one imported and one in the community.
The imported case is a man in his forties who recently returned from Russia on a flight through Turkey and Malaysia on September 19. He returned a positive test result on day 3 of his stay and is now in the quarantine facility.
The case of the community is a woman in her adolescence who was already isolating herself. This person is a family contact, epidemiologically linked to the bereavement subgroup of the August Auckland group.
“There are 35 people in isolation at the community’s Auckland quarantine facility, which includes 15 people who have tested positive for COVID-19 and their household contacts,” the ministry says.
Three people remain hospitalized in a ward. There is one at Auckland City, North Shore and Middlemore City Hospitals.
“Since August 11, our contact tracing team has identified 4,053 close case contacts, of which 4,050 have been contacted and are self-isolating or have completed self-isolation. We are in the process of contacting the rest.”
New Zealand now has 60 active cases, of which 29 are imported and 31 are community cases. We have now registered 1,473 confirmed cases.
On Thursday, the labs processed 6,465 tests, bringing the country’s overall total to 937,244.
“There are now 2,272,500 registered users in NZ COVID Tracer. The application has registered a total of 73,856,565 poster scans, and users have created 3,278,040 manual journal entries in NZ COVID Tracer.”
