A traveller from the Philippines is one of 14 new coronavirus cases in New Zealand, the country’s Ministry of Health (MS) announced Thursday (August 13).
“There is a new case of COVID-19 to report on controlled isolation: a woman in her 30s who arrived in New Zealand from the Philippines on August 8. She was in controlled isolation at the Distinction Hotel and tested positive for her stay on the 3 day,” announced the New Zealand Ministry of Health.
“Managed isolation” refers to the 14-day quarantine required for travelers entering New Zealand. Controlled segregation cases are other community cases, which can simply mean local coVID-19 transmission.
The other thirteen new instances are network instances. All are in Auckland and are connected to four previous cases of coronavirus from the same family, the Ministry of Health said.
New Zealand recently broke its 102-day COVID-19-free series on the network and is stepping up efforts to spread the virus.
Even before this 102-day series was interrupted, New Zealand still had instances in controlled isolation.
According to the Ministry of Health’s website, four out of 12 cases in controlled isolation in the first two weeks of August were travelers from the Philippines. The MS reported the following cases in the Philippines in August:
These imported cases occur when New Zealand struggles with a further increase in network affairs, with police helping to put in place a three-day closure in Auckland. New Zealand is one of the world’s leading models for combating COVID-19.
New Zealand has shown 1,238 cases of coronavirus, 22 deaths on Thursday morning. The country has a population of about five million. – Rappler.com