There are no new cases of Covid-19 in the community, but two new cases in managed isolation, the Ministry of Health reports.
The risk to New Zealand remains low, the Ministry of Health said.
This brings the total number of active cases in New Zealand up to 33. While the number of confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic is now 2245.
Yesterday, the Ministry of Health announced five new close or close plus contacts linked to the border worker who tested positive for the virus on Tuesday.
The Menzies Aviation employee cleaned high-risk planes arriving from overseas, including the aircraft that an infected traveller arrived on.
Genomic sequencing revealed earlier this week identified the infection as the highly infectious UK strain of the virus. The infection is linked to a passenger who landed in New Zealand on 10 April.
A significant shake-up of the country’s managed isolation system was also announced yesterday - set to separate returnees arriving on different dates to reduce the risk of transmission while in MIQ.
The trans-Tasman bubble freed up hundreds of spaces in managed isolation, allowing the Government to restrict all returnees arriving within a 96-hour window to one facility.
New Zealand’s created a new category for what’s now deemed as "very high risk" countries, restricting travel to just citizens, their partners and children.
Skyrocketing case numbers has led to the Government shifting the likes of India, Pakistan, Brazil and Papua New Guinea into the category.
An outbreak in Western Australia last night has also prompted the Government to halt quarantine-free travel with the state. Perth has entered a three-day lockdown.
After reviewing the incident in Perth, the Ministry of Health has deemed the risk to New Zealand through the travel bubble as low but are monitoring the situation.
New Zealanders who are now in Australia are asked to follow advice from local health officials and to check for locations of interest out of Western Australia.
Locations of interest for anyone who has visited Perth since 17 April can find them here .
More than 4500 tests for Covid-19 were completed yesterday, taking the seven-day rolling average up to just over 4000.
Testing centres throughout Auckland continue to remain open throughout the long weekend, with four centres open today.
These are Northcote, Henderson, Balmoral and Wiri.
You can also be tested for Covid-19 at after-hours medical clinics through the weekend.
There are now over 2.7 million people who have downloaded the NZ Covid Tracer app, with 254 million poster scans and 9.5 million manual entries.
Anyone who is visiting from Australia will also be required to download the app as the Australian contact tracing app won’t work in New Zealand.
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