There are six new cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today. One case is an imported case – a woman in her 50s who arrived in New Zealand from Qatar via Sydney on August 14.
She has been in managed isolation at the Sudima Hotel in Rotorua. The other five cases are in the community and they have all been linked to the recent outbreak.
These six new confirmed cases bring our total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 to 1,299, which is the number we report to the World Health Organization.
There are 125 people from the community who have been moved into the Auckland quarantine facility, which includes 61 people who have tested positive for COVID-19 and their household contacts.