The number of fishermen who have tested positive for Covid-19 in Christchurch has reached 32.
The Ministry of Health announced today that three more international mariners in the Sudima Hotel Christchurch Airport have tested positive.
"The three cases today were tested at day nine as they were part of the group who had previously been in close contact with other confirmed cases.
"These three are now in quarantine, along with the other mariners who had earlier tested positive," it said in the announcement.
They are among 440 fishers from Russia and the Ukraine, 270 of whom are due to go out on three Independent Fisheries boats next month.