There are two new cases of Covid-19 today, including one community and one imported case, the Health Ministry has revealed.
There was no media conference today. In a statement, the Health Ministry said the community case is linked to the Auckland August cluster bereavement sub-group.
It is the first community case to be linked to that group in more than a week.
The Ministry said the case is a female in her late teens who was already self-isolating as she was a household contact, epidemiologically linked to the bereavement group.
The imported case is a man in his 40s who returned from Russia on a flight via Turkey and Malaysia on 19 September, and is now at the quarantine facility in Auckland.
Three people are in hospital with the coronavirus at Auckland City, Middlemore and North Shore hospitals. None of them are in ICU.
There are currently 60 active cases - 29 are imported cases in MIQ facilities and 31 are community cases.
The country's total number of confirmed cases is now 1473.
New Zealand's laboratories processed 6465 tests yesterday.
Cases linked to Auckland-Christchurch flight on September 11
Yesterday it was revealed an Auckland family infected with Covid-19 holidayed in Taupō and met up with a group of more than 10 people, despite Aucklanders being urged to take their alert level restrictions with them when travelling.
The cases are linked to a man who tested positive five days after completing managed isolation in Christchurch after flying in from India via Fiji on 26 August.
The man flew home to Auckland from Christchurch on 11 September. Two other people from that flight and a household contact of theirs have subsequently tested positive.
In today's statement, the Ministry said there were a total of 35 close contacts associated with these three cases.
"Eight have returned negative test results and the remaining have been or are in the process of being tested. All are now self-isolating.
"Public health services in the relevant regions have been in contact with businesses where individuals may have visited while infectious and will be issuing information to the public as appropriate."
Three additional community testing centres have been set up - one in Taupō and two in Rotorua.
