After three days with no new cases but there is one additional case today. However it’s not exactly new as the person is linked to the Marist school cluster and had symptoms two months ago.
The Ministry of Health report:
Today we are reporting one new confirmed case of COVID-19.
This means New Zealand’s combined total of confirmed and probable cases is now 1,498, of which 1,148 are confirmed.
Today’s confirmed case is linked to the Marist cluster in Auckland and was identified through recent follow-up testing of the school community. The person first had symptoms nearly two months ago and had a previous negative test. The result is considered a ‘weak positive’ and the person, who has been in isolation through the lockdown period, is not considered infectious now.
We have previously identified instances of ‘weak positive’ cases, which can occur some time after an individual’s illness.
We now have 1,421 people reported as having recovered from COVID-19, an increase of 10 on yesterday. This is 95% of all confirmed and probable cases.
There are now just 56 ‘active’ cases across the country.
Today there are two people receiving hospital level care for COVID-19 – one each in Auckland and Middlemore hospitals. Neither are in ICU.
We still have 16 significant clusters.
There are no additional deaths to report.
There were 7,174 laboratory tests processed yesterday, which brings the total number of tests completed to 216,787.