There are no new cases of Covid-19 to report in the community today, the Ministry of Health has said in a statement.

In managed isolation, there are four new cases to report since our last update on Friday, plus one new historical case.

Four previously reported cases have recovered, leaving the total number of active cases in New Zealand today is 24.  

New Zealand’s total number of confirmed cases remains at 2,262.  

The Ministry has also provided an update on Western Australia, after a worker at a Perth MIQ facility tested positive for Covid, alongside two of their housemates. 

“The Ministry of Health carried out a rapid public health assessment on the impact for New Zealand last night and, after working with airlines, all direct passenger flights from Perth to New Zealand were paused. 

“Western Australia health officials are meeting this morning to decide whether they will implement further restrictions or a full lockdown. Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan said publicly yesterday said that a full lockdown was not necessary at that stage because Perth had still been subject to earlier COVID-19 restrictions including mask wearing and social distancing during most of the worker’s infectious period. However, he said a lockdown could be enforced if the situation changed. 

“Due to the time difference with Western Australia, further information is expected to be released about this later today.  

“The Ministry’s contact tracing team are today contacting those travellers who have arrived in New Zealand from Perth since April 27 and advising them to check the Western Australian Government website for locations of interest (https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/covid-communications/covid-19-coronavirus-locations-visited-confirmed-cases) and contact Healthline if they were at any of those locations at the time of interest.”

There is also an update on the Brisbane Airport green zone breach update

“Contact tracing teams have identified there were 397 passengers aboard the three flights which left Brisbane International Airport after the green zone breach on Thursday 29 April. 

“All but two of those people have now been contacted and asked to check the Queensland Government website for locations of interest. Attempts to contact the remaining two are continuing today.

“To date 27 people have got in touch with Healthline to say they were in the locations of interest at the relevant time. Those people are considered casual plus contacts and have been asked to self-isolate and get tested five days after their exposure. 

“The remaining passengers who weren’t at the locations of interest are advised to monitor their health and if symptoms develop, call Healthline and get a test. 

“The risk from this event continues to be assessed as low.”