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A flight attendant tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday (File photo).
Police have been called in to try to locate a gym fan linked to the Auckland February group.
“One person from the gym is still outstanding and health personnel are working with other agencies, including the police, to try to contact this person,” the Health Ministry said.
Meanwhile, he said five cases were detected in controlled isolation on Monday.
All the cases arrived on March 6 and had traveled from India and Brazil.
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The Health Ministry also said that the genome sequencing of the flight attendant who tested positive for the virus over the weekend was to be carried out on Tuesday afternoon.
Previously, he revealed Sunday night that the woman had tested positive for the virus after being cleaned during routine surveillance tests the day before.
She had returned to New Zealand from Japan on February 28, testing negative at the time.
The Health Ministry said Monday that public health personnel were “conservatively considering” that the woman may have been infectious since her last negative test on February 28.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern revealed on Monday that the flight attendant had been vaccinated against the coronavirus, but the ministry later said she “most likely” had the virus before being vaccinated.
Fourteen other aircrews were contacted and asked to isolate themselves and retest.
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PM Jacinda Ardern announced that Auckland would lower a Covid-19 alert level on Sunday at 6am, while the rest of New Zealand would return to level 1.
The Ministry was not ruling out local transmission of the virus in Auckland, but said the risk to the public was low as the region was at alert level 3 at the time.
This was despite the woman visiting the Auckland airport countdown on March 3 between 12.07 pm and 1.22 pm
People who were on the Auckland Airport countdown on Wednesday at the time are not being asked to isolate themselves.
Contact trackers are also in the process of tracking down people who were at an unnamed clinic at the same time as the woman during a medical appointment on an unspecified date.
The ministry said a golf course that a member of the woman’s family went to on Sunday morning was not considered a landmark.
“The family member tested negative for Covid-19 yesterday afternoon and was therefore not infectious while playing golf.”
Results of the genome sequencing are expected Tuesday afternoon.
All three members of the woman’s family were tested Sunday and all tested negative.
The ministry said Monday they are being kept in self-isolation at home as a “precaution.”
For eight consecutive days, no new community cases linked to the Auckland February cluster have been detected.
Auckland is in its second day at alert level 2.
