A family member of two of last week's community Covid cases has tested positive for coronavirus.
Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says the person was tested on the 27th of January, and on the 1st and 2nd of Feb. The person tested positive for Covid-19 on the 2nd of Feb.
The new case is the mother and wife of the two community cases who tested positive last Wednesday.
The public health risk, according to Hipkins, is low as the person had already been isolating - as they were a close contact of one of the already announced Auckland cases
The woman is being moved to the Auckland quarantine facility. She previously had been isolating at home. Her close contacts are now also being tested.
He said as the science tells the Government more about the vaccine programme, it will "fine tune" the programme and its rollout.
Hipkins said the Government will have 226,000 vaccines on NZ shores by the end of the first quarter.
Asked if athletes going to get jabs before everyone else, ahead of the Olympics, Hipkins said it's quite possible that they would be caught in the nation-wide vaccine rollout anyway.
If not, he said that NZ Olympians might be pushed ahead in the queue.
On the death in MIQ, Hipkins confirmed it was non-Covid but didn't know what the cause of death was.
This morning, it was confirmed that a person had died at the Crowne Plaza managed isolation facility at roughly 7.30 last night.
Bloomfield told Newstalk ZB this morning that airborne transmission seemed the most likely way Covid-19 had spread among returnees in the MIQ facility.
He said it was possible when the infected person went out of their room, the virus could have been swept out into the corridor.
Someone in the same area a short time later could have inhaled the same air and become infected, he said.
"Airborne transmission is the most likely route so that's as far as we've got so far."
Bloomfield will likely elaborate on the investigation this afternoon.