There is one new community case of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today (September 11).

The new case has an epidemiological link to an existing case and is associated with the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship bereavement events group, the Ministry of Health said.

There are a number of inter-related cases and contacts who may have been involved with both the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship sub-cluster, and the bereavement sub-cluster.

There are now 33 cases in the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship group and 13 cases in the bereavement sub-cluster, which includes the cases whose source of infection was the bereavement events.

One of the cases reported yesterday is a student at Henderson North School. 

The student is a household contact of a previously reported case, and as such had been in isolation and had been tested for COVID-19. They were not infectious when they last attended school and there are no close contacts among the Henderson North School community.

There are now 70 people linked to the community cluster who remain in the Auckland quarantine facility, which includes 55 people who have tested positive for COVID-19 and their household contacts.

Since August 11, contact tracing teams have identified 3,623 close contacts of cases, of which 3,608 have been contacted and are self-isolating.

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

With today’s new case and seven additional recovered cases, the total number of active cases is 114. Of those, 39 are imported cases in MIQ facilities, and 75 are community cases.

The total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 is now 1,442.

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