No new community cases; no new cases of COVID-19 in managed isolation
There are no new cases of COVID-19 to report in the community today.
There are also no new cases to report in recent returnees in managed isolation facilities.
The total number of active cases in New Zealand today remains at 23.
Our total number of confirmed cases remains at 2,257.
Since 1 January 2021, there have been 49 historical cases, out of a total of 441 cases.
Testing information
The total number of tests processed by laboratories to date is 2,018,845.
On Thursday, 5,303 tests were processed. The seven-day rolling average up to yesterday is 3,734 tests processed.
Brisbane Airport green zone breach
We are in contact with Queensland Health officials today following this reported breach and will be able to provide updated information as soon as we can.
A reminder for people who may need a COVID-19 test – please visit Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) for all testing locations in Auckland.
For all testing locations nationwide visit the Healthpoint website.
World Immunisation Week
As we come to the end of World Immunisation week, we want to reiterate our thanks to the more than 15,000 trained vaccinators in New Zealand.
There’s also a growing number of registered vaccinators stepping up to become part of our COVID-19 vaccination surge workforce, which now totals more than 2,600 people.
We’ve now passed the quarter million mark for the number of COVID-19 vaccination doses administered.
Of those doses, almost 69,000 people have been fully vaccinated.
NZ COVID Tracer
NZ COVID Tracer now has 2,803,315 registered users.
Poster scans have reached 258,881,457 and users have created 9,687,706 manual diary entries.
There have been 746,809 scans in the last 24 hours to midday yesterday.
The risk from this event continues to be assessed as low.
Health officials in Queensland have identified Brisbane’s international terminal as a location of interest following yesterday’s green zone breach at the airport and classified anyone in the terminal between 9.45AM local time and midday yesterday (Thursday) as casual contacts and asked people to monitor their symptoms.
The reported breach was in the Hudson Café and the nearby male toilets on level 3 in the terminal where two individuals from a red zone country were in the café and also used the toilets, accessible to green zone passengers.
Queensland Health has informed the Ministry that both passengers were tested in Brisbane with one returning a negative result and the other returning a weak positive.
A subsequent PCR test confirmed the weak positive.
Queensland Health has informed the Ministry that the two red zone passengers were wearing masks, maintaining social distancing with very little interaction with others and are not symptomatic. CCTV footage also shows the café table was cleared and cleaned when they left.
The three flights affected are Air New Zealand NZ 202 from Brisbane to Christchurch which arrived around 4.30 pm yesterday; Air New Zealand NZ 146 from Brisbane to Auckland which arrived at 5.30 pm yesterday and Qantas QF 135 from Brisbane to Christchurch yesterday.
A reminder for people who may need a COVID-19 test – please visit Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) for all testing locations in Auckland.
For all testing locations nationwide visit the Healthpoint website.
Ministry updates
The next scheduled COVID-19 statement is planned for this Sunday (2 May).
