Another NZ Health Update. 24 June
Australian traveller who visited Wellington
Further public health advice has been issued following an Australian traveller from Sydney, who was in Wellington last weekend, and tested positive for COVID-19 upon their return to Australia.
The visitor was in Wellington from Saturday 19 June until Monday 21 June.
New South Wales health officials have confirmed an epidemiological link of the person who tested positive to the Bondi cluster, providing reassurance the person did not contract COVID-19 in Wellington. Genome sequencing of the visitor is underway
Four initial close contacts in New Zealand who were previously identified are isolating, following public health advice, and have all returned negative test results.
So far, 420 people have been identified as contacts – of those, 167 have been tested, 15 have returned a negative result, and the remaining are pending a test result.
Of the 420 people, a significant number of these people have been referred by Healthline, so they have already been given key public health information around isolating and getting tested. Of those people, 164 have been spoken to by our contact tracing team.