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There are still more than 100 active cases of Covid-19 in managed quarantine and in the community.
A student at Sunnyvale School in west Auckland is one of the country’s newest Covid-19 cases.
On Saturday, the Ministry of Health announced two cases, both epidemiologically linked to existing cases and associated with the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship bereavement subgroup.
The ministry confirmed that the Henderson student was not contagious when he last attended school. No close contacts have been identified within the school community. Sunnyvale School remains open and is considered safe.
There are 15 cases linked to the grieving event and 33 cases linked to the scholarship. Ninety-eight percent of the congregation has been tested.
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“Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship leaders have actively encouraged all members of the congregation to retest for Covid-19 and comply with other public health advice such as self-isolation,” the statement read.
The Ministry of Health thanked the congregation for taking the test and their contribution to monitoring the Auckland group.
The new cases bring the total number of confirmed cases in New Zealand to 1,444.
Three cases are in the hospital. One is isolated at Auckland City Hospital, two others are in intensive care at North Shore and Waikato hospitals.
Eight existing cases have been officially recovered, bringing the number of active cases to 108. Most of these cases are in the community, 38 are international imports.
Auckland’s August group has grown to 176, and 69 of them are considered active.
The ministry has transferred 63 people linked to the cluster, including 47 active cases, to managed quarantine facilities in Auckland.
The country’s contact tracing team has identified 3,647 close contacts from existing cases. They have successfully contacted 3,640 who are self-isolating.
Testing rates nationwide are stable, with 8,838 swabs processed by labs on Friday. This brings the total number of tests completed in New Zealand to 857,258.
The ministry has registered 2.19 million registered users on the NZ COVID Tracer app. There have been 53.9 million poster scans and 2.7 million manual journal entries.
There are 367,650 QR codes on display across the country.
