New Zealand has three new cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 among its latest international arrivals.
The three cases arrived in Auckland from Dubai on December 11 and were transported to a Rotorua MIQ facility on a bus chartered for international arrivals.
One of the cases travelled to Dubai from London, another one from Spain and a third one from Nigeria. They all boarded the same flight in Dubai to Auckland.
None of these three cases are linked to the first Omicron case reported yesterday, in a Christchurch MIQ facility.
A statement from the Ministry of Health (MOH) says the cases have been moved to the Jet Park Quarantine facility in Auckland.