The number of Covid cases in Queenstown has ballooned to somewhere between 30 and 40.
The Otago Daily Times understands the number of cases has escalated after the virus surfaced in the resort last week.
It comes after a raft of locations of interest in the South - mostly in Queenstown - were announced over the weekend.
As at midday today there had been no new locations of interest in the South on the Ministry of Health website.