Today there are two cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand. Of today’s cases, one is an imported case detected in a managed isolation facility and the other is a historical case detected during contact tracing.
There are no new cases in the community. The imported case is a man in his 30s who arrived in New Zealand on 21 September from Russia via the United Arab Emirates.
He returned a positive result to day 3 testing and is now at the quarantine facility in Auckland. The historical case was tested because they were a passenger on the recent charter flight from Christchurch to Auckland.
They had returned negative day 3 and day 12 results in managed isolation. From additional testing and serology analysis, we have determined there