12 new cases of COVID-19

There are five new cases of COVID-19 to report in the community today, all linked to the Auckland cluster.

There are seven new imported cases of COVID-19 - three men in their 30s, a woman in her 60s, a woman in her 20s, and two children. They all arrived in New Zealand on August 23 on the same Air India flight from Delhi, and tested positive around day 3 of their stay in managed isolation.

Of the five community cases reported, four are from one household and are linked to the Mt Roskill Evangelical Church sub-cluster.

The other case is epidemiologically linked to a confirmed case which has been genomically linked to the community cluster.

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