There are three community Covid-19 cases in South Auckland - a mother, father and daughter from Papatoetoe.

Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins is fronting a press conference in the Beehive with Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield.

The mother and daughter have returned tests which confirm they are "new and active".

The mother works at LSG Sky chefs, one of the world's largest airline catering providers.

The mother and daughter have returned tests which confirm they are "new and active".

There was one case in managed isolation announced today.

One close contact of the three people in the community had tested negative, Hipkins said

"We are gathering all the facts as quickly as we can," he said.

Decisions from this point onwards will be influenced by science, he said.

More information will be available today, he said.

PM Jacinda Ardern is returning from Auckland to Wellington to be briefed.

Hipkins said the message was to follow the previously announced health and safety measures.

"There is no such thing as no risk, so long as Covid-19 is out there," he said.

He said how Covid-19 is stamped out is what matters.

Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said the mother works at LSG in Mangere.

He said the mother did all the right things.

When they developed symptoms, they self isolated.

The last time the mother was at work was on February 5.

Bloomfield said she was not infectious when she worked there - there is an investigation underway.

The source of these cases has not been identified yet.

Papatoetoe high school will be closed Monday and Tuesday

The daughter was a student there, Bloomfield said.

A testing facility on site will be provided.

"This approach has been taken out of an abundance of caution," Bloomfield said.

Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board chairwoman Lotu Fuli urged people to follow Ministry of Health advice after three new cases of Covid-19 were found in a household in Papatoetoe.

She said the only Covid testing station in the local board was at the Ōtara shopping centre, but she expected that other testing stations would be set up soon as they were during the last outbreak in South Auckland last year.

"We are concerned and we hope that people will follow all the advice," she said.

"We have been a bit slack in terms of scanning and everything else because we have been very complacent - the whole country, not just South Auckland.

"It is a concern because people live communally. In my own family we have three generations. So the potential for spread is very real."