The Ministry of Health has released six new locations of interest, including two bakeries in Tokoroa visited by a Covid-infected person.
The ministry confirmed today the case who recently travelled to Blenheim had spent the night at a residential address in Tokoroa before flying from Rotorua Airport.
The southern Waikato town is currently at alert level 2.
People living in Tokoroa and Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough, in particular, are asked to monitor the Ministry of Health's locations of interest page, which is regularly updated.
• Countdown Auckland Metro: 25 Victoria Street West, Auckland Central • PlaceMakers Cook Street: 106 Cook Street, Auckland Central • KK Bakery & Cafe Tokoroa: 237 Leith Place, Tokoroa • The Bakehouse Cafe Tokoroa: 227 Leith Place, Tokoroa • Avondale Superette: 1 Avondale Road, Avondale • Caltex Dominion Road: 911 Dominion Road, Mount Roskill
PlaceMakers Cook Street was visited twice - from 10.26am to 11.45am on Friday, October 22, and from 6.30am to 8.00am on Monday, October 18.
Earlier today an Ōtorohanga mini mart and McDonalds Ōtorohanga were listed as new locations of interest.
A total of 39 locations or exposure events were released by the Ministry of Health throughout yesterday - 16 of them announced in the last update at 6pm.
The Countdown Te Awamutu supermarket has been identified as a location of interest after a person with Covid-19 was there last Monday, October 18, between 9am and 10am.
A person with the virus was also at the Fresh Choice supermarket in Ōtāhuhu on Thursday between 11am and 5pm.
Nine locations or exposure events were announced in the Ministry of Health's update just before 1pm.
12.40pm update
• Bus 762, Glen Innes to Ōrākei: Auckland. Sat, Oct 16, 6pm-6.30pm • Century Yuasa Batteries Customers: 149 Captain Springs Rd, Onehunga. Tues, Oct 19, 8am-5pm • Labtests St Heliers: 188 St Heliers Bay Rd, St Heliers, Auckland. Tues, Oct 19, 11.15am-12pm • Chemist Warehouse Albany: 140 Don McKinnon Drive, Albany. Sun, Oct 24 (yesterday), 11.36am-12pm • Apollo Laundromat: 10/56 Apollo Drive, Rosedale / Mairangi Bay, North Shore. Sat, Oct 23, 7.50am-10am • Z Mairangi Bay: 413 Beach Rd, Mairangi Bay, North Shore: Wed, Oct 20, 6.20pm-7.35pm • Pak'nSave Wairau: 30 Wairau Rd, Wairau Valley, North Shore. Sat, Oct 23, 1.21pm-2.30pm • Bus 762 Glen Innes to Ōrākei: Auckland. Fri, Oct 22, 4.30pm-5pm • Bus 762 Ōrākei to Glen Innes: Auckland. Sat, Oct 16, 2pm-2.30pm
Several locations of interest around Auckland and Te Awamutu showed infectious people were in the community in the last week.
The latest anyone with the virus was yesterday afternoon, according to the locations of interest list.
A person who tested positive for Covid was at the Chemist Warehouse Albany store, on Don McKinnon Drive, from 11.36am to midday.
People there are the same time are told to monitor their health for any Covid symptoms for the next 14 days and to get tested if any symptoms start to show.
Farro Fresh North Shore, in Mairangi Bay, has been linked to an infected person who was there for just over an hour between 8.26am and 9.46am on Saturday.
Anyone who was at the store during that time is advised to monitor their health for 14 days after being exposed and to get a test done if Covid symptoms start to show.
"If symptoms develop, get a test and stay at home until you get a negative test result and until 24 hours after symptoms resolve."
The same Farro Fresh is connected to three other exposure events in the past week: • Tuesday, October 19: 12.50pm-2.15pm • Wednesday, October 20: 11.50am-1.15pm • Thursday, October 21: 10.34am-11.55am
A person with the virus was recorded as being at the Gull petrol station on Stoddard Rd, Mt Roskill, last Thursday. They were there between 2.32pm and 2.45pm.
The second location linked to a Covid positive case - on the same day - was at the Countdown Beachlands supermarket. The affected time is between 11.30am and 1pm.
Members of the public who were at either location during those times are advised to monitor their health for 14 days for any Covid symptoms. If they start showing, get tested and stay home until a negative result is returned.
The same health advice is given to fellow shoppers on those days too - monitor your health for the next fortnight after visiting the store and get a Covid test if symptoms appear.
Nine locations of interest listed yesterday showed people with the virus had been out in the community in Kaikohe, Blenheim, Rāwene in the Far North and the Auckland suburb of Glen Innes.
The two places visited by positive cases in Kaikohe that day was the Z Kaikohe petrol station, at 45 Broadway, between 1pm and 1.30pm and The Warehouse at 17 Station Rd, Kaikohe, between 11.30am and 12.15pm.