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Covid-19: Two new cases, one in the community

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Fri, 25 Sep 2020, 1:14PM

Covid-19: Two new cases, one in the community

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 25 Sep 2020, 1:14PM

There are two new cases of Covid-19 - one in the community.

One case is from overseas and tested positive in managed isolation.

The community case is a woman in her late teens who was already self-isolating. She is a household contact, epidemiologically linked to the Auckland August cluster bereavement sub-group.

The imported case is a man in his 40s who returned from Russia on a flight via Turkey and Malaysia on 19 September. He returned a positive result to day 3 testing and is now at the quarantine facility in Auckland.

The five families who travelled to Taupō come from all corners of New Zealand, including Kawerau, Wellington, Auckland, Hamilton and Christchurch.

So far 15 eateries, shops and tourist attractions have been marked by the Health Ministry as locations of interest between Auckland and Tūrangi.

They include repeat visits last week to one of Auckland's largest shopping centres, St Lukes Mall including late night Thursday and a four-hour dip at Taupō's popular DeBretts Hot Springs.

The cluster, which now stands at six, started with a man in his 40s who was twice tested negative but found to have the infection when he returned to Auckland after spending 14 days in a Christchurch managed isolation facility.

At this stage it is believed he contracted the virus after a rare 21-day incubation period.

The Ministry says three additional community testing centres have been stood up, one in Taupo and two in Rotorua. 

For more details about weekend testing and where to get a COVID-19 test in the locations from which the travellers came, visit these links:

  • in Auckland, visit Auckland Regional Public Health Service’s website
  • in Bay of Plenty, visit the DHB’s website
  • in Waikato, visit the DHB’s website
  • in Wellington, visit Capital & Coast DHB’s website
  • in Christchurch, visit Canterbury DHB’s website.

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