There is one new case of Covid-19 to report in managed isolation today. There are no new community cases.
The Ministry of Health confirmed today’s case arrived on November 3 from Romania via Qatar and Australia. They are a family member of a previous case from managed isolation and had already been transferred to the Auckland quarantine facility.
One previously reported case has now recovered, so there are 52 active cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand.
Our total number of confirmed cases is 1632.
Yesterday laboratories completed 5995 tests for Covid-19, bringing the total number of tests completed to date to 1,148,933.
November quarantine cluster
While CCTV does not capture all movements around the Auckland quarantine facility, a review of footage has not identified a connection between Case A and the returnees who have a similar genome. No other cases have this genome sequence, and all staff at the Auckland quarantine facility have returned a negative result to date.
The investigation is ongoing into how transmission occurred, the MoH said.
All occupants of Case A’s accommodation have returned negative test results.
Genome sequencing for Case B matched that of Case A, confirming transmission of Covid-19 from the first New Zealand Defence Force worker to the second.
Of 58 close contacts identified for Case B, 56 have returned a negative result. The remaining two are pending.
The Ministry of Health has today also advised that all members of the West Indies men’s cricket team who were provided certain exemptions from managed isolation rules will now be denied further training privileges after breaking managed isolation rules inside their Christchurch facility.
N95 masks
The Ministry is currently working to update its advice around access to and use of N95 masks in MIQ facilities, including clinical criteria and the supply chain. The advice will be finalised and then communicated appropriately to clinical teams and managers in MIQ in coming days.
NZ Covid Tracer
The NZ Covid Tracer app now has 2,348,900 registered users.
The app has recorded 111,647,050 poster scans, and users have created 4,639,895 manual diary entries.
