Published Saturday 21 Nov 2020



Regional Public Health can report another positive case of COVID-19 in our region.

This is a close contact of one of the existing positive cases (case B) in the November quarantine cluster. This person (case F) was self-isolating at home from 7 November, and chose to transfer to managed isolation on 11 November. They had a negative day five test and are now confirmed as a case today after returning a positive test at around day 12. They remain in the managed isolation facility in Wellington. All close contacts of case F have been followed up, tested and returned negative results.