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The Ministry of Health is scheduled to announce the latest issue of Covid-19 at 1 pm.
There are six new cases of coronavirus, including a close contact from an Auckland quarantine worker.
The other five are in managed isolation.
The ministry announced on Friday night that there was a new case in the community after a quarantine worker tested positive for Covid-19.
The person, who worked at the Jet Park quarantine hotel in south Auckland, was now isolated in a quarantine facility.
By Saturday 25 close contacts of the worker had been identified. All had been contacted, isolated and were being evaluated, a ministry spokesman said.
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Two workers at Sudima’s managed isolation facility in Christchurch have tested positive for Covid-19.
As of Saturday afternoon, six had returned a negative test result and the remaining test results were pending.
The case prompted the ministry to issue a request for people to use the Covid tracking app more after a low number of people were notified that they were in the same location as the infected quarantine worker.
The worker visited two central Auckland businesses while infected, Mezze Bar and Liquor.com, in central Auckland. Both businesses closed for a deep clean following the news and have now reopened.
However, the ministry said that fewer than 20 people who had been in the same place as the infected person received an alert from the tracking app, reinforcing the need for people to use it.
“This case once again reinforces the importance of everyone who can use the application to keep a record of where they have been; it allows our contact tracing team to quickly notify you if you may have been exposed to this virus and allows you to take immediate action to protect yourself, your whānau and your community. “
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