There are nine new cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand today. 

Eight of these cases have been detected in managed isolation facilities and one is a household contact connected to the marine employee cluster, who was already in self isolation. 

Seven of the cases in managed isolation involve fishing crew at the Christchurch facility.  

These were picked up at day six testing and the Ministry of Health expects more positive results from this group as more tests are processed today.

The other case from managed isolation arrived from Iran via Dubai on 19 October.

They tested positive following routine day 3 testing and are now in an Auckland quarantine facility.

The total number of active cases is now 66. 

The total number of confirmed cases is now 1,567.

Yesterday laboratories completed 6,053 tests for COVID-19, bringing the total number of tests completed to date to 1,054,047.