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There are eight new cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today, all in managed isolation. There are no new community cases.
One person arrived on 19 November from Finland via Sweden and Qatar and tested positive at around day 3 of their stay in managed isolation.
One person arrived on 19 November from Canada via Hong Kong and tested positive at around day 3 of their stay in managed isolation.
Both are now in quarantine at our Auckland facility.
One person arrived on 19 November from the United States and tested positive at around day 3 of their stay in managed isolation. This case is in quarantine in our Christchurch facility.
Five people are part of the same family that arrived on 19 November from Mexico via the United States and all tested positive at around day 3 of their stay in managed isolation.
These people are in quarantine in our Christchurch facility.
There are two additional recovered cases, which means there are now 59 active cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand.
The total number of confirmed cases is 1,683.
Yesterday laboratories completed 5,779 tests for COVID-19, bringing the total number of tests completed to date to 1,243,518.
Air New Zealand
As previously announced, Air New Zealand has made the Ministry aware of a possible case of COVID-19 in a staff member, who tested positive during routine screening in China.
Further test samples were processed rapidly in an Auckland laboratory, and these have returned a positive result, so this is now considered a confirmed case.
A source investigation is underway and swabs have been sent to ESR in Wellington for genome sequencing, which is being done as quickly as possible.
This person, 7 close contacts and 6 casual contacts from the flight all arrived in New Zealand this morning and were all tested on arrival.
This person and the close contacts are all in quarantine at our Auckland facility.
So far MOH has also have test results on some of the 11 close contacts, all of which are negative. All close contacts are in self isolation or managed isolation.
