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Six new cases of coronavirus have been announced in the community, four related to “mourning activities”, the Ministry of Health has announced.
All the new cases are linked to the August Auckland group, which now has 171 cases linked to it.
The new cases follow news that a student at St Dominic’s Catholic College in West Auckland tested positive for the virus.
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On Wednesday, the director general of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, reported new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand.
A student at nearby Henderson North Elementary School considers himself a close contact of the St Dominic student and isolates himself at home.
The director general of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, said that four of the new cases are related to “mourning activities”, related to visits to a home and a funeral. A total of 14 cases are related to these activities after a contagious person visited the home.
More than 100 contacts of these cases are isolated and are being tested. One of the people linked to the “mourning activities” is the student from Santo Domingo.
Bloomfield also requested that everyone involved with Mount Roskill Evangelical Fellowship be retested to make sure the group was contained.
He said that from the beginning there had been some reluctance to have people associated with the church tested.
A Ritchies bus driver tested positive for coronavirus, the company director confirmed.
The bus driver who tested positive is a Northern Expressway driver.
The driver had no symptoms while at work and was wearing a mask and gloves, he said.
The Auckland Regional Public Health Service said the driver was working between 5.30am and 1pm on September 3 and 4pm and 6.15pm on September 4.
“Passengers did not interact with the driver and used the back door to get on and off the bus,” ARPHS said.
Bloomfield said the controller has also joined the current group.
The Auckland Regional Public Health Service will provide more detailed information on the bus driver’s routes on Wednesday afternoon.
However, Bloomfield said no close contacts had been identified from the buses as of Sept. 3-4.
The driver had no symptoms while at work and was wearing a mask and gloves, he said.
Bloomfield said there are currently four people with the virus in the hospital, and two are in the ICU.
A total of 74 people linked to the cluster are in the quarantine facility, this includes 58 people with the virus and their household contacts.
The case of the Rydges Hotel maintenance worker who tested positive has now been closed.
The most likely source of infection was a single surface transmission event in the hotel elevator, Bloomfield said.
