Today we have two new cases of COVID-19 to report, made up of one confirmed case and one probable case. The confirmed case is linked to the Marist College cluster.
The person who has tested positive for COVID-19 is a student who has been in self-isolation since March 20. They had been contacted by Healthline in the first week of April and were not unwell, so were not progressed for testing at that stage.
As part of the broader testing of Marist students and staff as they head back to school, around 250 people have been tested so far – this has been the only positive result of this group.
This student has a weak positive result and is almost certainly very late in their illness. The significance of a weak positive result so late in the