SunLive One new imported case of COVID-19
There is one new imported case of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today and no new community cases.
Today’s imported case arrived on October 7 from Kenya via Dubai and was taken to a managed isolation facility in Auckland. The Ministry of Health says they tested positive at routine testing around day 12 of their stay and have been transferred to the Auckland quarantine facility. "Our total number of confirmed cases is now 1,531, which is the number we report to the World Health Organization. Five previously reported cases are now considered to have recovered, bringing the total number of active cases to 33. There are 30 community close contacts identified in relation to the port worker case, and all of those have been contacted and are self-isolating. "All the test results returned from close and casual contacts of the case announced on Sunday are negative to date. "Yesterday our laboratories completed 2,715 tests for COVID-19, bringing our total number of tests completed to date to 1,034,603."
