There were no new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand announced yesterday. Photo / 123RF
There are three new cases of Covid-19 today - and all three infected people travelled to New Zealand on the same flight from India.
The new cases are in managed isolation or quarantine around the country. There continues to be no community transmission, the Ministry of Health said today.
All three new cases arrived in Christchurch on June 30 from Delhi, India.
The trio's flight had transited through Singapore but they did not leave the plane there, the ministry said.
"All have been in managed isolation since their arrival in Christchurch and their cases were detected during our day three testing. All are now in quarantine at the Chateau on the Park," the ministry said.
"The first case is a woman in her 30s. The second is her husband, a man in his 30s.
"Their close contacts include two daughters who will be tested today and who have also been moved into the quarantine area.
"The third case is a man in his 70s, travelling with his wife who is regarded as a close contact."
The latest reporting from the World Health Organisation is that there are 212,326 new cases of Covid-19 - the largest daily increase on record.
NZ now has 21 active cases
The number of active cases in New Zealand has risen from 18 to 21 total as a result of the new cases.
A man in his 30s is in Auckland City Hospital in a stable condition.
The country now has 1183 confirmed cases. One significant cluster remains open and is due to close tomorrow.
The ministry's lab testing figures have been delayed by an IT update and will be made public as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, there have been 588,800 registrations on the NZ Covid Tracker app. The ministry continues to encourage New Zealanders to download and use it.
"It continues to provide us with up-to-date contact information to support our contact tracing efforts in Level 1," the ministry said.
"This remains key to New Zealand's elimination strategy."
The number of posters created by businesses is now 76,337 and there have been 1,340,052 poster scans to date.
Yesterday, the Premier announced the closure of nine public housing towers in hot zone suburbs of Victoria after they were linked to clusters of the virus.
The towers would be closed for five days while the authorities tested residents.