Coronavirus Covid-19: a new case in managed isolation

There is a new case of Covid-19 in managed isolation.

There are no new community cases.

Today’s case arrived on December 4 from the UK via Hong Kong.
According to the Health Ministry, they tested positive upon arrival and were transferred to the Auckland quarantine facility.

A previously reported case has recovered, bringing the total number of active cases in New Zealand to 56.

The total number of confirmed cases is 1,723.

End of daily Covid-19 update

“At this stage in New Zealand’s response to Covid-19, we are seeing cases appearing routinely at the border in recent returnees in managed isolation facilities,” a spokesperson said today.

“We hope this will continue to be the case as long as we remain at Alert Level 1 with the managed isolation requirements.”

To reflect this, the Ministry is reducing the frequency of media updates to four times a week, currently scheduled for Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

“The Ministry’s website will be updated with case numbers in accordance with these media updates.”

On those days, the Ministry will report the cases that have tested positive in isolation administered in the days prior to the last update.

“The public can rest assured that the Ministry will report any significant developments, including any cases that arise in the community, sooner if necessary.”

The new agreement will start from Wednesday, said today’s statement.

There are now 2,395,000 registered users of the NZ COVID Tracer app.

Poster scans have reached 134,292,215 and users have created 5,407,554 manual journal entries.

The Health Ministry says there were 5,530 tests for Covid-19 yesterday, bringing the total number of tests to 1,309,992.

There are now 2,394,300 registered users of the Covid-19 tracking app, and 133,782,991 poster scans have been performed to date.

There have been 5,389,423 manual entries in the journal, reports the ministry.

Although there were no new cases yesterday, on Saturday the ministry reported that there were nine new cases.

Eight of those announced on Saturday were active cases, which are contained, and the other was a landmark case.

Of the eight, half were traveling separately and arrived on November 30 from the United States.