Today (Friday September 4) five new cases of COVID-19 were reported raising New Zealand’s total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 to 1,413. 

Two of the five new cases are imported cases detected in managed isolation facilities, and three are community cases epidemiologically linked to the Mt Roskill Evangelical Church cluster, which is known to be linked to the wider South Auckland August cluster.

The two imported cases are children who are family members of previously identified cases who had arrived from India on 23 August. Both children are aged under nine and were already in quarantine with family members at the Auckland quarantine facility.

Since August 11, the contact tracing team has identified 3,191 close contacts of cases and 98 per cent have been contacted and are self-isolating. Health officials are in the process of contacting the rest.

There are 82 people linked to the community cluster who remain at the Auckland quarantine facility, including 59 people who have tested positive for COVID-19 and their household contacts.

That number continues to decline as cases recover and reach the end of their isolation period.

There are six people with COVID-19 in hospital today; two are in ICU. 

With today’s five new cases, New Zealand’s total number of active cases is 112. Of those, 37 are imported cases in quarantine facilities, and 75 are community cases.

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