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Three passengers, including a child, who were traveling on a charter flight with a man who tested positive for coronavirus more than a week after leaving controlled isolation, contracted the virus.
On Wednesday a girl between the ages of 1 and 4, a woman in her 20s and a man in her 30s, who are part of the same family, were confirmed to have Covid-19.
The Health Ministry said the family, who live in Auckland, are not connected to the community group in Auckland, but took a chartered flight from Christchurch to Auckland on Sept. 11 with a man who was diagnosed with coronavirus over the weekend.
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Auckland residents wear face masks after the discovery of a second community outbreak of Covid-19 in the city in August. (File photo)
The man had recently returned from India and received negative test results on days 3 and 12 of his two-week stay in controlled isolation at the Crowne Plaza in Christchurch.
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However, he underwent a third test after feeling unwell while at home and the result was positive.
The man was one of two community cases announced Sunday.
One of the other 85 passengers on the same chartered flight also tested a “weak” positive on Monday. However, another swab came back negative the next day.
Authorities have contacted everyone on the plane. All passengers have been tested or will be soon. Sixty-three of them have had a negative result.
Authorities continue to investigate the origin of the infections.
Genomic testing, sequencing the genetic material, or RNA, of a virus, revealed that the strain of Covid-19 in which the first passenger tested positive closely matched that of a confirmed case that had been aboard another flight he took. from Delhi to Fiji before. take the chartered flight in New Zealand.
Test results for a third passenger on the Delhi to Fiji flight are pending.
Six other landmark cases, dating back to February, were also announced Wednesday. Those cases were part of a historical group in Waikato.
The ministry said they posed no risk to the public.
The historic cases came to light after a man recently developed a sore throat and was tested for Covid-19.
The test returned a “weak positive” which, in addition to testing his antibodies, led doctors to believe he had an old Covid-19 infection.
You probably contracted the virus from a family member who became ill while visiting New Zealand from Italy.
The relative had symptoms of Covid-19 when he arrived in New Zealand on February 21, a week before what had been considered the country’s first coronavirus case was confirmed.
Other people who lived in the same house as the man also felt bad.
However, the home was not tested for coronavirus at the time because they had not traveled or transited China.
At that stage, Italy had not been identified as “a country of concern,” the ministry said Wednesday.
The man, who first had coronavirus symptoms on February 29, was now considered a “confirmed” case, while five of his relatives had been classified as “probable” cases.
The ministry now believes that the family was the first case of community transmission in New Zealand.
People who were in close contact with the man when he was sick recently had been tested for coronavirus as a precautionary measure and had negative results.
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People are tested for Covid-19 at Wellington Hospital. (File photo)
The three new cases brought the total number of active coronavirus infections to 62, 34 of which were by community transmission and 28 were contracted abroad.
Now three previously reported cases have been recovered.
Three people who are ill with the virus remain in hospital, one in Auckland City, Middlemore and North Shore Hospital. They are all isolated in the general rooms.
During the pandemic, 1,468 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in New Zealand.
No new cases were reported on Monday or Tuesday.
Before the discovery of a second outbreak in the Auckland community on August 11, New Zealand was free of Covid for more than 100 days.
Since February, the labs have processed 924,637 Covid-19 tests, 6,938 of which were completed on Tuesday.
