Nine mariners test positive on Covid-struck vessel
Nine mariners test positive on Covid-struck vessel Tue, 20 Jul 2021, 10:19AM
More crew members on board a container ship struck by Covid-19 have tested positive for the virus.
A total of nine crew members on the Marshall Islands-flagged vessel, the Mattina, have returned positive results overnight after all 21 mariners were tested when two of their crew started to show flu-like symptoms.
The Ministry of Health has confirmed the news in a statement this morning, saying: The Mattina, which was brought into port in Bluff on Sunday night, is the third vessel in New Zealand waters to be struck by coronavirus.
There are no cases of COVID-19 to report in the community in New Zealand today.
There are three positive cases of COVID-19 to report today in recent returnees in managed isolation facilities.
One previously reported case has now recovered. The number of active cases in New Zealand is 47.
Since 1 January 2021, there have been 99 historical cases, out of a total of 644 cases.
The seven-day rolling average of new cases detected at the border is seven.
Our total number of confirmed cases is 2,461.
Playa Zahara Update
The fishing ship Playa Zahara is now secured at a quarantine berth at Lyttelton Port within an exclusion zone not accessible by the public.
Photo: AFP
In a statement, the Ministry of Health said one of the new cases arrived in the country on 14 July from Serbia and Montenegro via the United Arab Emirates. The other two arrived on 16 July and 17 July - one via Singapore and one from Eritrea. All three are in a managed isolation facility in Auckland.
It also said the full travel histories of the two cases who arrived on 13 July and reported yesterday have now been obtained. One was from the United States and travelled via Qatar and Australia. The other case was from South Africa and travelled via Qatar and Australia.
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Media release from the Ministry of Health
Monday 19 July 2021, 02:27 PM
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There are no cases of COVID-19 to report in the community in New Zealand today.
There are three positive cases of COVID-19 to report today in recent returnees in managed isolation facilities.
One previously reported case has now recovered. The number of active cases in New Zealand is 47.
Since 1 January 2021, there have been 99 historical cases, out of a total of 644 cases.
The seven-day rolling average of new cases detected at the border is seven.
Our total number of confirmed cases is 2,461.
Playa Zahara Update
The fishing ship Playa Zahara is now secured at a quarantine berth at Lyttelton Port within an exclusion zone not accessible by the public.
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