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Today there have been three new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand, none of them in the community, the Ministry of Health has confirmed.
Covid-19 test (file image). Source: istock.com
Of the more than 22,000 tests for Covid-19 that have been conducted since a woman living, working and studying in central Auckland (known as Case D) was confirmed to have the virus on Thursday, only one person tested positive.
That person is Case E, who lives in the same Auckland apartment as Case D and is considered a close contact.
Residents of the accommodation facilities used by the New Zealand Defense Force in Auckland, where a Defense Force worker has stayed (Case A), have undergone a second test for Covid-19, and all have negative result.
The investigation into how Case D was exposed to Case A is ongoing.
Of the cases at the border, one person arrived from the UK via Dubai on November 14.
The other two arrived from Dubai on November 14.
There are now 64 active cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand and the country has had 1,652 cases in total.
Yesterday, New Zealand labs processed 8,392 Covid-19 tests, bringing the total number of tests to 1,199,426.
