Of the new cases:
- One case arrived on 23 April and tested positive around day 5. They have been transferred to a quarantine facility in Auckland.
One case arrived on 24 April and tested positive around day 3. They have been transferred to a quarantine facility in Auckland.
- One case arrived on 27 April and tested positive around day 0. They have been transferred to a quarantine facility in Auckland.
NZ COVID TRACER
NZ COVID Tracer now has 2,802,149 registered users.
Poster scans have reached 258,138,805 and users have created 9,660,862 manual diary entries.
There have been 752,434 scans in the last 24 hours to midday yesterday.
It’s incredibly important that people keep a record of where they’ve been. It can help support contact tracers in tracing potential close and casual contacts of people who have tested positive for COVID-19.
The more we all scan, the safer we’ll all be. The data is stored on your phone until you choose to share it.
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A reported green zone breach at a Brisbane Airport café which may have involved passengers flying to New Zealand has prompted health authorities to advise passengers on arrival in New Zealand to monitor their health for the next 14 days.
The reported incident was in the Hudson Café in Brisbane airport where two individuals from a red zone country were in the café at the same time as green zone passengers. The risk has been assessed as low.
The Ministry understands the two red zone passengers returned negative results prior to departure from their home country. A second test result from swabs taken today has returned a weak positive for one test and a negative result for the other.
A total of 172,564 people have received their first doses of the vaccine, an increase of 31,984 from last Wednesday’s figure of 140,580.
A total of 60,024 people have received a second dose and are now fully vaccinated.
In the past seven days to Tuesday 27 April 2021 we administered 47,981 vaccination doses to people. This is slightly higher than the 47,845 vaccinations administered in the previous seven days. Overall, DHBs are tracking slightly ahead of plan.
We are also adding to our stocks of the Pfizer vaccination. We have received around 685,620 doses into the country – enough to vaccinate more than 342,000 people with the two doses required for maximum protection.
Following interviews with the person who has today returned a positive test for COVID-19, the Ministry of Health believes there is a clear link to the border as the source of the infection.
The person who has tested positive for COVID-19 works as a cleaner at Auckland International Airport, cleaning planes that have flown internationally from countries where COVID-19 is widespread.
The person has been regularly tested every week for COVID-19 as part of routine surveillance testing. They were tested yesterday at their workplace as part of this, and that test came back as positive today. Their previous tests were all negative.
There are no new community cases of COVID-19 to report today.
There is one border worker who has returned a positive test result for COVID-19 – they work at Auckland Airport.
The usual protocol of isolating the case, interviewing them, and tracing their contacts and movements is underway. More information will be provided later today and this case will be included in tomorrow's totals.
There is one historical case of COVID-19 to report since yesterday – this case is a recent returnee who is considered recovered.
The seven-day rolling average of new cases detected at the border is two.