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There is one New Covid-19 case to report in managed isolation today and none in the community.
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Today marks the sixth day in a row that there have been no cases in the community. Source: 1 NEWS
Chief Health Officer Dr. Ashley Bloomfield confirmed today’s figures at a press conference.
There have been no community cases for six days in a row.
Today’s case arrived in Auckland on October 19 from the UK via Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia on the EK448.
The person is now in the Auckland quarantine facility.
Seven more cases are considered recovered and there are a total of 68 active cases in New Zealand.
That brings the total number of New Zealand cases to 1,585.
Yesterday, 2311 tests were completed, with a total of 1.72 million tests now completed.
Bloomfield said yesterday’s test numbers were “somewhat lower” because it was a holiday, but there were “good test numbers” on Saturday and Sunday.
More than 20,000 community tests have been completed in Auckland since a port worker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, and authorities are confident that there is no hidden community transmission, Bloomfield said.
Yesterday, five cases of Covid-19 were reported. All were in controlled isolation and none in the community.
Preliminary results of genome sequencing also revealed yesterday that all three cases connected to the Sofrana Surville spacecraft had identical forms of the virus, showing that it came from a common source.
