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The government is urging the Kiwis to remain vigilant.
New Zealand has seen seven consecutive days with no known community cases of Covid-19.
The Health Ministry released an afternoon update on Sunday afternoon noting a single new case in managed isolation.
The update comes as Aucklandites enjoy their first day out of the Level 3 lockdown since last weekend.
About 72,000 tests were processed in the last week, but no Covid-19 was found in the community.
More than 6,700 were processed on Saturday, bringing the total number of evidence processed in New Zealand to almost 1.8 million.
Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said earlier Sunday that no new community cases had been found overnight.
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The Government continues to urge vigilance, asking people to stay home and get tested if they are sick, and to scan anywhere they go with the NZ COVID Tracer app.
Auckland dropped to level 2 on Sunday morning at 6am, while the rest of the country went down to level 1.
Auckland will remain at level 2 until at least the end of the week, when the government will review alert levels again.
Auckland residents can go to work, move freely and attend meetings of up to 100 people.
Kiwis across the country are required to wear masks on domestic flights and public transportation.
The case in managed isolation came to the country from South Africa via Qatar. They were picked up at their routine test on day 1.
Auckland still has seven community test stations open today: at Northcote, Balmoral, Henderson, Lloyd Elsmore Park in Botany, Wiri, Otara, and Takanini.
The National Party is calling for an investigation into the Valentine’s Day group that caused the two Level 3 alert closures for Auckland.
National leader Judith Collins said that with every lockdown that costs the economy, a lot more care is needed.
“This week we discovered that our contact tracing is not the ‘gold standard’ that the government would have us think. We have not met critical measures in the last two outbreaks and not all locations of interest have been disclosed to the public, ”Collins said.
“The way the national border is managed must also be improved. There were long lines of people trying to return to Auckland last weekend, and on Friday afternoon students trying to return home from boarding school were prevented from reuniting with their families at the border without reasonable explanation. “
