Coronavirus Covid-19: No new community cases, seven in managed isolation

Currently, there are no new community cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand, but there are seven in isolation.

The Health Ministry says there are now 93 active cases in the country.

One of the infected travelers is in Hamilton, while the rest are at the Jet Park quarantine facility in Auckland.

One came from Holland, two from India and one from Pakistan. The departure countries of three other infected people are not on the list.

Of those now being treated, all were detected on day zero or one, except for one arrival from the Netherlands who developed symptoms on day 2.

That person is currently in Managed Isolation in Hamilton.

The travelers arrived in the country between March 11 and 13.

The Health Ministry said the labs had already processed 1,821,426 tests to date.

But yesterday saw a sharp drop with only 2440 tests processed.

The ministry said that 47,000 more users had signed up for the Covid tracking app in the past fortnight.

With huge crowds gathering in Auckland for America’s Cup races, there were 1,107,949 scans in the last 24 hours.

“It’s great to see continued good use of the NZ Covid Tracer app and it’s vitally important that the Kiwis continue to do so. Scan the QR codes wherever you go and turn on Bluetooth tracking in the app dashboard if you haven’t already. done. “said the ministry.

Before today’s update, there were 87 active cases of Covid-19, with none in the community.

A person remains in the hospital under treatment for the virus.

It is reported that the location of another is unknown and health authorities confirm that this person is an international sailor who tested positive in New Zealand but on a ship that had since sailed from our shores.

According to a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, the infected sailor has no plans to return to New Zealand.

With the country now reunited at alert level 1 and all community cases recovered from the February Valentine’s Day cluster, health authorities continue to urge people to continue using the contact tracking app saying it is “from It is vitally important that the kiwis continue to do so. “

The Health Ministry said it was important to stay alert and stick to the basics: staying home if you’re not feeling well and getting advice on getting tested, washing your hands, coughing and sneezing into your elbow, and wearing face masks or coverings on all public transport and tracking where you have been.

The Auckland flight attendant at the center of this month’s border-related aircrew case remains at the Jet Park quarantine facility after testing positive just over a week ago for a Russian strain of Covid.

So far, fourteen cabin crew have tested negative along with domestic contacts.

Health authorities said the infected case had a limited number of contacts and therefore the risk to public health in general was considered low.

Only one new case was detected at the border yesterday.

A person who arrived from France on March 9 tested positive on the third day of routine tests.

They are now quarantined at the Jet Park Quarantine Facility in Auckland.

Meanwhile, authorities in two Australian states are struggling to contain new outbreaks in the community.

In Queensland, hundreds of people have been contacted when a quarantine hotel was closed after two residents tested positive with ongoing investigations to see if there were any transmissions.

Both cases were already known and registered by Queensland Health, but only on Sunday it was discovered that one of them could have “potentially” caught it from the other while in hotel quarantine.

They were both staying at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Brisbane, which will go into a 72-hour lockdown while authorities investigate whether Covid-19 spread between them while they were staying at the hotel rather than having them both captured separately abroad and they will bring it. .

One of the cases was a patient at Princess Alexandria Hospital in Brisbane, who was treated by a doctor who later tested positive for Covid-19.

A contact search is underway for more than 200 of the medical community contacts from four locations that he visited on Thursday. There were 61 employees and seven patients at the hospital who were identified as possible close contacts of the doctor who tested positive.

Urgent contact tracing is underway in NSW after NSW Health revealed that the state’s first positive case in 55 days was confirmed as a 47-year-old man working as a security guard at two Covid-19 hotels for returning travelers.

As a result of the scare, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia have issued travel alerts in response to the new coronavirus case.