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There are 12 new cases in managed isolation of Covid-19 in New Zealand today, announced the Director of Public Health.
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All cases were intercepted at the border and are in managed isolation. Source: 1 NEWS
Dr. Caroline McElnay gave the latest update in Wellington this afternoon after no new community cases and one case of managed isolation were announced yesterday.
Today’s 12 cases are all managed in isolation. There are none in the community.
McElnay said 10 of the new cases arrived from India on Sept. 26 on flight AI1354 and tested positive on day three.
“We can report that the cases were distributed throughout the aircraft on its flight to New Zealand, between rows 14 and 41.”
The other two cases came from separate flights; one from the United States on a September 26 flight and the other from the Philippines on a September 23 flight; they were a contact from another case.
The update means New Zealand has 1,492 confirmed cases to date, 53 of which are still active. Three cases have been recovered.
There is a person at Middlemore Hospital, not in intensive care.
Since August 11, 4,047 close case contacts have been identified, of which all have been contacted and are self-isolating or have completed self-isolation.
Yesterday, the labs processed 5,679 tests, bringing the total number of tests completed to 966,238.
