There are no new cases of Covid-19 in the community and all contacts of the family connected to the latest outbreak have so far returned negative tests.
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Covid 19 coronavirus: No new cases in community, five in managed isolation
15 Feb, 2021 01:25 AM
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PM Jacinda Ardern and director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield this afternoon gave an update on the three Valentine s Day cases, all of which are within one family.
PM Jacinda Ardern and director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield this afternoon gave an update on the three Valentine s Day cases, all of which are within one family.
Political reporter, NZ Herald@AmeliaJWade
There are no new cases of Covid-19 in the community and all contacts of the family connected to the latest outbreak have so far returned negative tests.
February 15, 2021
There are no new cases in the community outside of the 3 cases announced yesterday. For formal reporting figures, the third community case is included in our numbers today.
There are 5 cases of Covid-19 in managed isolation, one of which is historical.
Auckland February cases
The results of genomic sequencing for the first 2 Auckland February cases have confirmed the Covid-19 variant B1.1.7, first detected in the UK.
ESR is now conducting a scan of the international genome database to see if there is a match.
This result reinforces the decision to take swift and robust action around the latest cases to detect and stamp out the possibility of any further transmission.
On Monday, one woman was disappointed when she was turned away from a pop-up testing centre at Papatoetoe High School about closing time, after having already been turned away from the community testing centre in Ōtara.
She said the family attended the same church as a staff member of a supermarket the positive cases had visited, and she was worried about her daughter s health. Since she s got the symptoms, she s got a blocked nose and a sore throat, so we thought it s better to have a test, she said.
The Ōtara testing centre
Photo: RNZ / Liu Chen
At the Ōtara testing centre, dozens of cars were still queueing as the facility neared closing time.