There are no new cases of COVID-19 to report in the community today.
There are also no new cases to report in recent returnees in managed isolation facilities.
The total number of active cases in New Zealand today remains at 23.
Our total number of confirmed cases remains at 2,257.
Since 1 January 2021, there have been 49 historical cases, out of a total of 441 cases.
TESTING INFORMATION
The total number of tests processed by laboratories to date is 2,018,845.
On Thursday, 5,303 tests were processed. The seven-day rolling average up to yesterday is 3,734 tests processed.
BRISBANE AIRPORT UPDATE
We are in contact with Queensland Health officials today following this reported breach and will be able to provide updated information as soon as we can.
A reminder for people who may need a COVID-19 test – please visit Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) for all testing locations in Auckland.
For all testing locations nationwide visit the Healthpoint website.
WORLD IMMUNISATION DAY
As we come to the end of World Immunisation week, we want to reiterate our thanks to the more than 15,000 trained vaccinators in New Zealand.
There’s also a growing number of registered vaccinators stepping up to become part of our COVID-19 vaccination surge workforce, which now totals more than 2,600 people.
We’ve now passed the quarter million mark for the number of COVID-19 vaccination doses administered.
Of those doses, almost 69,000 people have been fully vaccinated.
NZ COVID Tracer now has 2,803,315 registered users.
Poster scans have reached 258,881,457 and users have created 9,687,706 manual diary entries.
There have been 746,809 scans in the last 24 hours to midday yesterday.
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Ministry of Health officials have this evening been advised a worker at a Perth managed isolation facility has tested positive for COVID-19 as part of routine testing. Two of the person’s housemates have also tested positive.
Ministry officials have conducted a rapid public health assessment for New Zealand, and have determined scheduled direct flights from Western Australia to New Zealand should be immediately paused while a further assessment is carried out, including a further assessment
and information from Australian health officials.
Western Australian health officials have determined a number of locations of interest, which are listed on its website.
The Ministry of Health has this evening been advised by Queensland health authorities of a change in classification for some passengers who flew from Brisbane to New Zealand on Thursday afternoon and evening New Zealand time.
While the health risk from the green zone breach event remains low, the Queensland authorities have advised New Zealand counterparts that those travellers who were in two locations of interest at specified times within the international terminal are casual plus contacts.
The two locations of interest are Hudson’s coffee stand and adjacent seating between 9.23am and 11.20am Thursday 29 April Queensland time, and the male toilet adjacent to Gate 79 between11.23am and 11.15pm when the toilet was cleaned.
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.