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There is a new case of Covid-19 in isolation managed on Wednesday. There are no new community cases.
The positive case arrived on November 3 from Romania via Qatar and Australia.
They are a family member from a previous case of managed isolation and had already been transferred to the Auckland quarantine facility, the Health Ministry said.
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An official with a member of the public at the Covid-19 Assessment Center appears in the parking lot of the Princess Margaret Hospital facility in Christchurch.
The Health Ministry also warned all members of the West Indies men’s cricket team, who were provided with certain exemptions from the managed isolation rules, that they would be denied further training privileges after violating the managed isolation rules. within its Christchurch facility.
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Following an investigation, it was confirmed that team members had repeatedly violated the rules of managed isolation.
On Tuesday, there was a new Covid-19 case to report in managed isolation and there were no new cases in the community.
Last Friday, a Defense Forces worker, known as Case A, who had been working at the Jet Park quarantine hotel in south Auckland, tested positive for the virus.
On Saturday 25 close contacts of the worker were identified and tested.
One of them, a civilian employee of the Defense Forces, tested positive.
Friday night’s case prompted the ministry to request that more people use the Covid Tracer app after a small number of people were notified that they were in the same location as the infected quarantine worker.
The worker visited two downtown Auckland businesses, Mezze Bar and Liquor.com, while he was infected. Both businesses closed for a deep clean following the news and have now reopened.
Genome sequencing for Case A showed a direct link to two returnees at the Auckland quarantine facility, and the nature of contact between Case A and the returnees was still under investigation.
An extensive review of the CCTV images was performed to determine how case A was exposed to infection, but a connection between case A and the returnees could not be identified.
The investigation is ongoing into how the transmission occurred.
There are currently 52 active cases in New Zealand, four in the community.
The total number of confirmed cases is 1,632.
On Tuesday, 5,995 tests were conducted for Covid-19, bringing the total number of tests completed to date to 1,148,933.
