Coronavirus Covid-19: New Lynn Countdown Closed for Cleanup After Infected Person Visited

A Countdown supermarket in West Auckland is closed for deep cleaning after a person with Covid-19 visited the store.

The New Lynn store inside LynnMall in West Auckland closed today, according to the Countdown website.

A person who tested positive for the coronavirus visited the store on Friday, September 4, from 8:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

The store was immediately closed for a deep cleaning after Countdown was notified of the visit by the Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS).

Public health officials considered the visit low-risk, Countdown said on its website.

The same Countdown store was closed for a deep cleaning just three weeks ago after a person who later tested positive for Covid-19 visited the store.

It was one of four Countdown sites closed in August following a visit from a client infected with the virus.

Browns Bay, Te Atatū South, St Lukes and Auckland City stores were closed last month for a deep cleaning following visits from people who tested positive for Covid-19.

Countdown said the health and safety of its staff and customers were a top priority.

“We have a variety of security measures, including additional cleaning, methacrylate screens in the box, and physical distance,” he said.

“We are also strongly encouraging our team and customers to wear masks when in our stores.”

Six new cases today

Meanwhile, there are six new Covid-19 cases today, four of which are in the community and linked to the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fraternity Church “mini-group”.

Two of the cases are in controlled isolation: One is a man in his 20s who arrived from the Philippines on September 3 and was in a managed isolation facility when he tested positive on the third day of his stay.

The second case is a woman in her teens who arrived on the same flight from the Philippines and also tested positive on day 3.

The four new cases in the community are all linked to the Mt Roskill Evangelical Church Fellowship group within the Auckland August group. Auckland Regional Public Health is actively tracking and testing its contacts.

Four people with Covid-19 are hospitalized. Two are stable and isolated: one in Middlemore and one in North Shore hospitals. Two are in the ICU, at North Shore and Waikato hospitals.

With today’s six new cases and an additional recovered case, the total number of active cases from New Zealand is 123. Of these, 43 are imported cases in managed isolation facilities and 80 are community cases.