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There is a new Covid-19 case to report in managed isolation on Tuesday, and there are no new cases in the community.
The new positive case is a person who arrived from India via Singapore on October 31.
The Health Ministry confirmed that the person had been transferred from the Grand Mercure hotel to the Jet Park hotel on November 5, after a relative tested positive for the virus.
On Monday, four new cases of Covid-19 were announced, all in managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) facilities. No new community cases were reported.
On Friday, a Defense Force worker, known as Case A, who had been working at the Jet Park quarantine hotel in south Auckland tested positive for the virus.
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Those who test positive for Covid-19 are transferred to the Jet Park hotel in Auckland.
On Saturday 25 close contacts of the worker were identified and tested.
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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 central Auckland businesses while infected, Mezze Bar and Liquor.com. Both businesses closed for a deep clean following the news and have now reopened.
However, the ministry said that fewer than 20 people who had been in the same place as the infected person received an alert from the tracking app, reinforcing the need for people to use it.
Genome sequencing for case A showed a direct link to two returnees at the Auckland quarantine facility; the nature of the contact between Case A and the returnees was still under investigation.
An extensive review of the CCTV images was underway to determine how Case A was exposed to the infection.
The remaining close contact from Case A had yielded a negative test result.
Of the 55 close contacts identified from Case B, 48 have tested negative and the remainder are pending.
There are currently 52 active cases in New Zealand, four in the community.
The total number of confirmed cases is 1,631.
2,960 tests were completed for Covid-19 on Monday, bringing the total number of tests completed to date to 1,142,938.
