There are six new COVID-19s to report on in New Zealand today.
One case is an imported case: a woman in her fifties who arrived in New Zealand from Qatar to Sydney on August 14. She was put into controlled insulation at hotel Sudima in Rotorua.
All five instances are on the network and all have connected to the recent outbreak.
These six new instances shown raise our total number of instances shown from COVID-19 to 1299, we inform the World Health Organization.
There are 125 other people on the network who have been transferred to the Auckland Quarantine Facility, which includes 61 other people who tested positive for COVID-19 and their family contact circle.
Five others get hospital care for COVID-19, one in Auckland and four in Middlemore.
A note on this topic, other people with COVID-19 who are in the hospital are remote and controlling thoroughly separately from other patients. The public can be sure that our DHHs are handling this effectively, as they did with the first COVID-19 outbreak in New Zealand. We have heard reports from others who are hesitation in taking an ambulance or going to the hospital; hospitals continue to be safe places for medical care, and others deserve to feel confident when they go to the hospital for treatment.
Yesterday, our labs processed 23,038 by COVID-19.
This brings the total number of tests performed to date to 639,415.
During the test, others are only tested if they have symptoms, are related to a case, or if they are concerned that they may have had contact with a case. This will help with the capacity of our lab right now.
Since August 11, we have met 1983 close contacts from other people who tested positive for COVID-19. We tracked down 1,861 of those Americans and they’re self-insulated, and we’re in the process of contacting the others.
We hear reports of some confusion among others calling Healthline about what other other people’s teams do, so we’re clarifying this:
Close contacts are other people who have been highly exposed to a proven or probable case of COVID-19 in the infectious age of the case, for example, living in the same family or within 2 meters of a case for 15 minutes or more. They’re likely to be more likely to be threatened with this exposure. People known as close contact are asked to be tested and stay away for 14 days to reduce the threat of COVID-19 spread.
Casual touches are other people who were exposed to a shorter or farther case and do not meet the criteria for close contact. They are less likely to become inflamed after exposure. People known as informal contact are asked to monitor their fitness for 14 days after exposure and seek the recommendation of their family doctor or Healthline if they do not feel well or expand COVID-19 symptoms.