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The Health Ministry is still investigating whether and how a member of Air NZ staff caught Covid-19. They tested positive in Shanghai after testing negative in New Zealand four days earlier. Photography / Brett Phibbs
The Health Ministry will provide further details on a positive suspected case on an Air New Zealand flight this afternoon.
The ministry is giving its Covid-19 update in a statement around 1 p.m.
It is still investigating the circumstances of an Air New Zealand cabin crew member who tested positive in Shanghai on Sunday, after testing negative a few days earlier while in New Zealand.
The staff member and his colleagues returned to New Zealand this morning and have been isolated.
The cabin crew member has been re-examined to confirm the result, but the ministry is treating him as a positive case out of precaution.
The source is not yet known, but genomic testing will be done in an attempt to find a link to the existing cases.
Contact tracing is also ongoing in Auckland to find out where the staff member went in the two weeks leading up to the flight to Shanghai. So far three close contacts have been identified and two more are under investigation.
The Auckland Regional Public Health Service said the person went to a gas station, two Auckland supermarkets, a paint store, a pharmacy and a pet shop.
The person visited BP Connect in Māngere, Resene Mt Roskill, and Countdown and New World in Papatoetoe on Friday, November 20.
They also visited the pharmacy at Countdown Greenlane and Animates Manukau on Saturday, November 21.
This morning the Auckland Regional Public Health Service issued a correction to the schedule for one of two supermarket visits made on Friday, saying the person was in the store two hours later than initially reported.
Yesterday there were two new cases of Covid-19, both in managed isolation.
There were 53 active cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand.
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Shoppers who visited these locations during these times are considered “low risk” and should be aware of symptoms and, if present, get tested and isolate themselves.
Friday, November 20
• BP Connect Gas Station, 154 Coronation Rd, Māngere, between 9.28 am and 9.35 am.
• Review Mt Roskill between 11:45 and 12:15.
• Papatoetoe countdown between 17:59 and 17:22.
• Nuevo Mundo, Papatoetoe between 7:29 pm and 7:45 pm.
Saturday November 21
• Pharmacy in Countdown Greenlane between 12:34 and 12:42.
• Cheer on Manukau between 1:20 and 2,11.
