There are 12 new Covid cases today - five of which are in the community, public health director Caroline McElnay says.
Four of the new community cases are linked to the "mini cluster" - at the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship in Auckland. There are now 12 positive cases linked to the cluster.
The other seven new cases are in managed isolation. All the seven imported cases arrived on the same day - they are heading to the Jet Park quarantine facility in Auckland.
McElnay said the seven border cases came from a part of the world where there is a lot of Covid-19.
Finance Minister Grant Robertson wouldn't say which country the people came from, but he said it was an Air India flight.
Asked if the funding would be pulled, Robertson again said it was his understanding that there was a good faith offer that was made and that cannot be reversed.
Officials say there are 600 people linked to the Mt Roskill "mini cluster". A link between the Mt Roskill 'Mini cluster' and the wider Auckland cluster has not yet been found, but McElnay confirmed that it was epidemiologically linked.
But the "mini cluster" is genomically linked to the B111 Covid-19 outbreak in Auckland – meaning it's from the same Covid-19 family.
Officials are calling for anyone who was at services at the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship Church on August 8, 9 and 11, as well as anyone who was at an August 7 wedding, to get tested "as soon as possible".
There were seven new cases of Covid-19 yesterday, all but one were in the community. There are 10 people in hospital with Covid-19.
Two people were in Auckland City Hospital, four people in Middlemore, three in North Shore Hospital and one in Waikato Hospital.