5 new COVID-19 cases

Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa announced a 72-hour lockdown which came into effect at 6pm (local time).

The extension will now end at 6pm on Thursday.

Fiame made the announcement this afternoon.

The public will be able to replenish their supplies, shops, money transfer services as well as markets on Tuesday and Thursday during the allocated hours of 8am to 2pm.

Some of the new cases were reported amongst frontline workers who were supervising ten repatriates who tested positive for Covid-19 last week.

There are no cases of COVID-19 to report in the community today.

Two previously reported historical cases, associated with the Playa Zahara fishing vessel, have now been reclassified as ‘not a case’. Neither case meets the current COVID-19 case definition.

As a result, these cases have been removed from our total cases count and our historical cases tally.

The number of active cases in New Zealand is 46.

Since 1 January 2021, there have been 107 historical cases, out of a total of 694 cases.