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Masks are now a must on public transport throughout Auckland. These travelers are shown on Britomart in the CBD.
One person confirmed on Saturday as having Covid-19 was not a border worker as previously reported, but a close contact of a Defense Forces worker who had previously tested positive, the Health Ministry says.
The ministry said on Monday that the information it initially provided to the media was “incorrect.”
The person, known as Case F, has been in isolation since November 7 and all of his close contacts have tested negative.
The correction comes when two new cases of coronavirus were announced on Monday, both in managed isolation.
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Both new confirmed cases arrived on November 19 and tested positive around the third day of their stay in controlled isolation.
The first person came from the UK via the United Arab Emirates. It is still determining the country of origin of the latter.
Both persons have been transferred to the quarantine facility in Auckland, the Jet Park Hotel.
On Sunday, nine new cases were announced, all recent returnees in controlled isolation.
Seven are now in Jet Park and two are in quarantine in Christchurch.
The travelers came from several countries, including France, the United States, Bangladesh, Italy and Spain.
“The varied origins of these cases are a stark reminder that as Covid-19 continues to strike countries and jurisdictions around the world, isolation and mandatory testing will continue to be critically important as large numbers of New Zealanders return to I home before the holiday period, “the ministry said.
Meanwhile, health officials have released a case study detailing the risks of traveling on long-haul flights during the pandemic, even if negative coronavirus tests are required before the flight.
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Jet Park Hotel serves as Auckland’s quarantine center.
The report details a Covid-19 outbreak linked via DNA analysis to a passenger on an 18-hour flight from Dubai to New Zealand in September.
The traveler, who tested negative for the coronavirus with a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test within 48 hours of the flight, was contagious but presymptomatic on board the plane and infected at least four other passengers.
In total there were seven cases linked to the flight, which had 86 passengers on board.
“This case speaks to how difficult it is to keep infected people off a flight, even if a PCR test is done in a narrow period before the flight,” David Freedman, infectious disease specialist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham , reviewed the report, said The Washington Post.
“The original case probably became infectious after he took the pre-flight test, but was not actually symptomatic until 71 hours after the flight.”
Update Tracer application Covid
An update to the NZ Covid Tracer app is expected Monday night, for ease of use, the ministry said.
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The NZ Covid Tracer app should automatically update for all users over the next few days. (File photo)
Existing users will no longer be asked to log back into the app with their password, and new users will no longer need to provide their email address.
The ministry said it also made the app more stable and fixed an issue that was affecting some people with Oppo, OnePlus, Xiami and Redmi devices.
The app will update automatically for most users over the next few days, or it can be updated manually via the App / Play Store.
Currently, the application has 2,378,700 registered users. Poster scans have reached 123,706,942 and users have created 5,058,420 manual journal entries.
There are 52 active cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand. The total number of confirmed cases is 1674.
