The Ministry is confirming one new case of COVID-19 in a worker in the Auckland quarantine facility. Because the person works at the facility and is not a returnee they are considered a community case.
The case was reported to the Ministry on Friday afternoon.
The individual has been tested regularly as part of the routine testing for staff in the facility, most recently being swabbed on 3 November and returning a negative test on 4 November.
The staff member developed symptoms on 5 November and was tested again that day. That test has returned a positive result.
Contacts of the worker are being traced, isolated and tested.
Two businesses in Auckland have been contacted by Auckland Regional Public Health Service and notified that the worker visited their premises during their infectious period.
Full details of these locations of interest and advice for people who may have had contact with the case are on the ARPHS website.
A push notification has been sent via NZ COVID Tracer to everyone who scanned in to these businesses around the relevant time.
Full details of the case, and the actions taken in response to the positive result, will be provided in the 1pm update on Saturday.
Managed isolation workers are regularly tested. As in other recent cases this worker quickly got tested as soon as they became aware of symptoms. The early identification of cases along with rapid contact tracing assists in stopping any spread of the virus.
