There are no new cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today – that’s zero at the border, and zero in the community. This result is particularly pleasing as it includes the test results that we have back from three close contacts of the case we reported yesterday - that’s his one workplace contact and two of his household contacts.
We continue to investigate the source of this man’s infection - we believe the most likely source of the man’s infection is a ship he worked on in Auckland - the Sofrana Surville.
That ship had travelled from Papua New Guinea to Solomon Islands to Brisbane to Tauranga to Auckland, where eight crew joined it from the Philippines on October 13.