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The Minister of Health Chris Hipkins and Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield will provide an update on COVID-19 at 1.00 pm today.
Latest from live stream update:
- The Ministry of Health has reported five new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand, three of them are in the community.
- Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says the three community cases are all linked to the Mt Roskill Evangelical Church. He says that grouping has been genomically linked to the Auckland cluster.
- The two imported cases were detected at the managed isolation facility at the Rydges Hotel in Rotorua via routine testing around day three.
The first case is a woman in her 30s who arrived from Dubai on 28 August and the second is a child who arrived from Uzbekistan via Dubai also on 28 August. Both cases have been transferred to the Auckland quarantine facility with other members of their bubble.
Dr Bloomfield says since 11 August the contact tracing team has identified 3192 close contacts of community cases and of these, as at 10am this morning, 2992 have been contacted and are self-isolating.
He says they’re in the process of contacting the rest.
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