No new positive cases in the community - Ashley Bloomfield
No new positive cases in the community - Ashley Bloomfield
There are no new positive cases in the community - and there are four cases in managed isolation, director general of health Ashley Bloomfield says.
Bloomfield said the lack of new cases was encouraging but stressed we re not out of the woods .
There were 8880 tests processed which mostly would have been taken on Sunday.
Bloomfield said they were expecting high numbers of swabbing again today and tomorrow.
There are 11 community testing centres open again today and people who are symptomatic or at one of the exposure events should be the ones getting a test - anyone else should stay home and can call Healthline for more advice if needed.
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Ardern said every time there had been community outbreaks, there had been breaches. And we have recovered from them.
In the latest outbreak, there has been contact between people in families when one of them should have been isolating. The two mothers in the two families went for a walk together when the first family was meant to be isolated.
In another breach, a Covid case, 21, when to a gym in Papatoetoe after getting a coronavirus test.
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A queue waiting to get tested for Covid-19 at the Community Testing Centre, Fair Mall, Otara. Photo / Sylvie Whinray
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City Fitness members were told in an email last night that its Papatoetoe gym would be re-opened at 8am today after a deep clean because a Covid-positive case had been at the premises on two occasions.
But it was not to be.
Just half an hour later, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Auckland would be going back into alert level 3 lockdown from 6am today.