Photo: RNZ / Simon Rogers, Dom Thomas, Supplied / Ministry of Health, RNZ / Dan Cook
Cabinet will decide if the seven days of lockdown - that began on Sunday - is long enough to be satisfied there s no widespread transmission.
In today s Covid-19 briefing, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said it still had not been a week on from the last known public exposure event at an Auckland gym, where a positive case had visited whilst unknowingly infectious.
He said in the next 24 hours, officials would want to see test results from that gym before deciding about alert levels.
Professor Philip Hill who specialises in international health at the University of Otago told Checkpoint the time and course of that case s illness as well as the environment could be factors in that decision.
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