Zero new community cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand today
However, there are five new cases from managed isolation.
One other case has now recovered, meaning the total number of active cases is 74.
The five cases today include three additional international mariners in the Sudima Hotel Christchurch Airport, this brings the total number of mariners who have tested positive to 32.
The three cases today were tested at day nine as they were part of the group who had previously been in close contact with other confirmed cases.
These three are now in quarantine, along with the other mariners who had earlier tested positive.
Of the remaining two positive cases to report today, the first is a family member of a positive case who is a recent returnee and both were already in quarantine in Auckland's quarantine facility.
The other case is a recent returnee who arrived from Ethiopia via Dubai and tested positive as a result of routine testing around day three. This person has also been transferred to Auckland's quarantine facility.
The NZ Ministry of Health now has preliminary results of the genome sequencing for the two other Auckland cases linked to the original worker who returned a positive test result after working on the ship the Sofrana Surville.
The genome sequencing shows the three workers all have an identical form of the virus - further evidence their infections are from a common source.
Australian authorities are doing genome sequencing on the three crew members of the Sofrana Surville who tested positive on arrival in Brisbane after leaving New Zealand.
Those results are pending.
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