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There are five new Covid-19 community cases in the Bay of Plenty and one new case in the Lakes District Health Board region today.
All the Bay of Plenty cases are in the Tauranga area and the Lakes case is in Rotorua.
Three of the Bay of Plenty cases are linked to previously reported cases and links with the two remaining cases are currently being investigated. All five cases are isolating at home and public health staff are currently following up with contacts for the purposes of testing and isolating.
Three cases are in Tauranga Hospital.
The Rotorua case is linked to a previously reported case.
There are 56 active cases in Bay of Plenty and 12 in Lakes.
The Ministry of Health has also confirmed a case in Ōpōtiki, who is isolating at home. This case, who normally resides in Ōpōtiki, was tested outside the Eastern Bay of Plenty before returning home and is not included in the region's case numbers today.
They are isolating in managed accommodation with public health oversight.
Ranolf Medical Centre Rotorua has been named as a new location of interest. Anyone who was there on Monday December 6 between 9.45am and 11.15am should self-monitor for Covid-19 symptoms for 10 days after they were exposed.
If symptoms develop, get a test and stay at home until you get a negative test result.
Ranolf Medical Centre. Photo / Google Maps
Mount restaurant 'high risk' location of interest, other locations named
A Mount Maunganui restaurant has been named as a 'high risk' location of interest.
Anyone who was at Kwangchow Restaurant Mount Maunganui on December 3 between 11.30am and 10.15pm, December 4 between 11.15am and 10.15pm and December 5 between 11am and 6pm should self-isolate, test immediately and on day five.
Other new locations include Mitre 10 Mega Tauranga on Cameron Rd on December 5 8.45am - 10am, and MIDAS Tauranga on Cameron Rd on December 3 between 7.45am and 8.30am.
Locations of interest
December 9 update:
Ranolf Medical Centre Rotorua. December 6. 9.45am and 11.15am. Self-monitor for Covid-19 symptoms for 10 days after they were exposed.
Countdown Papamoa. * Dec 4. 7.45pm - 9pm City Sports Bar Tauranga. Nov 30. 5.45pm -7pm Brookfield Hot Bread Shop Tauranga. Dec 4. 12.30pm- 1pm The Orchard Thieves Pizza Welcome Bay. Dec 4. 5.30pm -6.45pm
December 8:
Kwangchow Restaurant Mount Maunganui. December 3 between 11.30am and 10.15pm, December 4 between 11.15am and 10.15pm and December 5 between 11am and 6pm. Mitre 10 Mega Tauranga. December 5 8.45am to 10am. MIDAS Tauranga. December 3 7.45am and 8.30am.
Tumble Laundromat Tauranga November 30 between 3.45pm and 5.15pm. 6.05pm and 7:20pm. Countdown Fairy Springs Rotorua. November 30. 6pm - 9pm.
Self-monitor for COVID-19 symptoms for 10 days after you were exposed. If symptoms develop, get a test and stay at home until you get a negative test result.
December 7:
Tenpin Tauranga. November 30.10.45 am - 2pm. Self-isolate The Warehouse Cameron Rd. November 30. 5.15pm and 6.30pm. Self monitor. Fourteenth Avenue Dairy. November 30. 1pm to 3pm. Pak n' Save, Cameron Rd. November 30. 6.15pm to 8.15pm.
December 6 update
High risk: Tauranga Central Police Station. Sunday December 5. 2.44pm-3pm: Self-isolate, test immediately and on day five.
December 5 update
Tauranga and Mount Maunganui
St Mary's Anglican Church Mt Maunganui: December 1 between 10.30am and 1.45pm
New World Gate Pa: December 1 between 1.15pm and 4pm.
PaK'nSave Cameron Rd Tauranga: December 1 between 1.15pm and 4pm.
Anyone who visited these locations of interest must self-monitor for Covid-19 symptoms for 10 days after being exposed at these locations of interest. If symptoms develop, get a test and stay at home until you get a negative test result AND until 24 hours after symptoms resolve.
December 4 update
Tauranga, Te Puke and Mount Maunganui
Maketu Landing Dairy Maketu: November 28 between 7.19am and 8.39am
St Vincent De Paul Tauranga Op Shop: November 29 between 2.30pm and 4.40pm.
Bayfair Shopping Centre, Mount Maunganui: November 30 between 10.15am and 12.30pm
Mecca Maxima Bayfair, Mount Maunganui: November 30 between 10.15am and 12.30pm
Anyone who visited these locations of interest must self-monitor for Covid-19 symptoms for 10 days after being exposed at these locations of interest. If symptoms develop, get a test and stay at home until you get a negative test result AND until 24 hours after symptoms resolve.
