A Chinese student is believed to be in isolation in Auckland City Hospital after undergoing tests for possibly having coronavirus.
A student accommodation provider, who asked not to be named, said the male student was coughing when he arrived at his accommodation yesterday from Hubei province, the epicentre of China’s coronavirus epidemic.
The accommodation provider sent him to the hospital, which is understood to have to have taken tissue swabs that have been sent to Australia for analysis.
‘‘He is in isolation right now at Auckland Hospital.’’
Public health authorities said they would not comment on individual cases, but that there were no confirmed cases of coronavirus in New Zealand.
Ministry of Health public health director Caroline McElnay said there were not any cases that have ‘‘met the definition of a suspected case’’ but did not directly comment on whether anyone was in isolation.
