9 new cases of COVID-19 31 August

There are nine new cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today.

Four are in MIQ and five are in the community.

Of the four imported cases, three females – one in her 30s, one in her 20s, and a child – arrived from India on August 22 and all tested negative around day three of their stay in managed isolation. They were each retested as a contact of a previously reported case, and subsequently returned a positive result.

The fourth person who has tested positive today is a woman in her 30s who arrived from India on August 27.

The five new confirmed community cases are all clearly epidemiologically linked to the Auckland cluster.

Three cases are linked to the Mt Roskill Evangelical Church. The other two cases are both household contacts of two separate previously reported cases.

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