The Prime Minister has announced four confirmed cases of COVID-19 in one family from an unknown source. The index case is a person in their 50s who lives in South Auckland.
They were swabbed yesterday, and the swab was processed twice. A second swab, taken today confirms the positive result. The person has been symptomatic for five days and was interviewed this evening by the Auckland Regional Public Health Service.
The person has no overseas travel history. As is our usual protocol we are continuing to trace close and casual contacts of this person and test them for COVID-19.
This has included household contacts of the case who received a rapid test this evening. Three of these tests have also come back positive and three are