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.
Anyone who has left Perth in the past four days and arrived in New Zealand should check the Western Australia website - wa.gov.au/organisation/c…
Recent arrivals in New Zealand who have been at these locations of interest should self-isolate immediately and call Healthline in the morning for further advice.
More information will be released tomorrow.
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From 17 May, you can travel between New Zealand and the Cook Islands without having to go into managed isolation or self-isolation when you arrive.
Anyone in New Zealand can travel quarantine-free to the Cook Islands, as long as they meet the eligibility criteria and immigration requirements. New Zealand citizens do not need a visa to travel to the Cook Islands.
Quarantine-free travel between New Zealand and the Cook Islands does not include Australia. If you're in Australia, you must spend 14 full days in New Zealand before you can continue your journey through to the Cook Islands. The same rule applies in the opposite direction.
There are no new cases of COVID-19 to report in the community today.
There are four new cases to report in recent returnees in managed isolation facilities, since our last update yesterday.
Three previously reported cases have now recovered. The total number of active cases in New Zealand today is 25.
Our total number of confirmed cases is 2,266.
Globally, there have been 151,803,822 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 3,186,538 deaths, reported to WHO
Since 1 January 2021, there have been 50 historical cases, out of a total of 450 cases.
New Zealand health officials today participated in a meeting with their Australian counterparts to further assess the public health risk of the recently identified COVID-19 community cases in Perth.
It has been determined that the risk to public health in New Zealand is low.
Following further assessment, the Ministry of Health is advising airlines that flights between Perth and New Zealand can resume as early as tomorrow.
This follows last night’s temporary pause in direct Perth-New Zealand bound flights while the Ministry was awaiting a further assessment from Western Australian officials.
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.