There are seven new confirmed cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today. One is an imported case – a woman in her 20s who arrived in New Zealand on August 22 from Turkey via London and Hong Kong.
She has been staying in MIQ at the Sudima in Christchurch and tested positive for COVID-19 around day 3 of her time in managed isolation.
The other six cases are in the community, and they have all been linked to the Auckland cluster. Five cases are household contacts of previously reported cases, and one is linked via their workplace.
By this morning our contact tracing team had identified 2,455 close contacts of cases, of which 2,404 have been contacted and are self-isolating, and we are in the process of contacting the rest.