At least three staff members with Auckland-region district health boards have tested positive for coronavirus, officials confirmed today.
According to the Ministry of Health, the workers are now in self-isolation at home but the exposures are not thought to have happened at the workplaces of any of the staff.
Auckland's three health boards are Counties, Auckland and Waitematā.
There are now 797 people who are believed to have contracted the virus, with the country's highest total in one day recorded yesterday with 89 new cases.
Northern Region Health Coordination Centre lead Dr Dale Bromley says there is protection measures in place to potect staff at the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic.
"Our healthcare workers are the frontline workers of the fight against Covid-19 and we have infection prevention and control measures in place in our hospitals and other sites to protect them."
Dr Bromley says staff are just as vulnerable to outside risks as they are also part of the wider community.
Some co-workers of the infected DHB staffers have since been stood down from the DHB sites as a precaution in an effort to minimise the risk of exposure to coronavirus
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