Covid 19 coronavirus: a new case in managed isolation

There is a new case of Covid-19 in managed isolation.

The person tested positive on routine tests on day 3 in controlled isolation in Christchurch. They are now in quarantine, says the Health Ministry.

There are currently seven additional recovered cases.

The total number of active New Zealand cases is 39, all imported cases. There are no active community cases of Covid-19.

No one is in the hospital with Covid today.

Yesterday there were no new cases.

No one was reported to be in the hospital and the death toll has not changed in 25 lives lost from the virus.

Yesterday’s lab results showed that a total of 2,026 people across the country had been tested for coronavirus.

That brought the number of people tested in New Zealand to 1,002,790.

The Health Ministry has been releasing the official Covid-19 results via a press release every day for the past few days instead of the daily live press conference.

The Ministry also released the latest figures related to the Covid Tracer application yesterday.

More than 2.3 million kiwis have been registered in the app, helping to control where the user has visited.

The app has logged a whopping 89,889,212 poster scans, and users have created 3.7 million manual newspaper entries, official figures showed yesterday.