There are four cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today, all in managed isolation. One involves a recent arrival and three are classified as historical.
There are no new cases in the community. Firstly, we want to provide an update around the Auckland community case announced yesterday.
It’s really encouraging news that overnight, whole genome sequencing from this case has indicated an identical genetic profile to the sequence found in the Auckland managed isolation worker we’ve been referring to as Case A.
In addition to this, testing of three close contacts have come back negative – a work contact and two social contacts. Now we have this information, we can have greater assurance around the nature of this case.