Today there are two new cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand – one in the community and one in managed isolation. The community case has been epidemiologically linked to the Auckland cluster.
The case in managed isolation is a woman in her 30s who arrived from the Philippines via Hong Kong on August 29. She has been in MIQ at the Distinction Hotel in Christchurch and tested positive around day 3 of her stay.
Since August 11, our contact tracing team has identified 3,162 close contacts of cases, of which 2,984 have been contacted and are self-isolating, and we are in the process of contacting the rest.
There are 92 people linked to the community cluster who have been transferred to the Auckland quarantine facility, which includes 67