There is one new case of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today, detected in a recent returnee in a managed isolation facility.
There are no new community cases. Today’s new case is a woman in her 30s who arrived from Dubai on September 9, who is related to the three cases reported yesterday.
We are today reporting the death of a man who had COVID-19. The man was in his 50s and was a confirmed case of COVID-19 linked to the Auckland cluster.
The man was admitted to Waikato Hospital on August 19 and was transferred to ICU on August 26. Sadly, he passed away yesterday afternoon.
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