There are four new cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today (Thursday September 10).

Two are community cases linked to the Auckland August cluster and two are imported cases detected at managed isolation facilities, the Ministry of Health said.

The imported cases are a man in his 30s and a woman in her 50s. 

Both cases arrived in New Zealand on a flight from India on August 27. They were in managed isolation in Christchurch and tested positive to day 12 testing. Both cases are now in quarantine.

The two community cases have epidemiological links to existing cases in the bereavement sub-cluster and back to the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship group.

The school deep clean at St Dominic’s in Auckland has been completed and testing of all staff and students is well underway.

Many members of the school community have been tested since they were informed of the case on Tuesday afternoon.

The vast majority of students at St Dominic’s are casual contacts, and being tested as a precaution. If these students and staff are well and have no symptoms of COVID-19, they do not need to self-isolate while waiting for test results.

Close contacts have been advised they need to stay in self-isolation for 14 days, even if their test result is negative.

There are now 72 people linked to the community cluster who remain in the Auckland quarantine facility, which includes 56 people who have tested positive for COVID-19 and their household contacts.

Since August 11, contact tracing teams have identified 3,372 close contacts of cases, of which 3,354 have been contacted and are self-isolating, and teams are in the process of contacting the rest.

Today there are three people in hospital with COVID-19 – one is in isolation on a ward in North Shore Hospital. Two are in ICU, at North Shore and Waikato hospitals.

With today’s four new cases and nine additional recovered cases, the total number of active cases is 120. Of those, 39 are imported cases in MIQ facilities, and 81 are community cases.

The total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 is now 1,441.

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