Young child one of two new cases

There are two new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand.

They have both been caught at managed isolation facilities and neither involves community transmission. It brings the total number of active cases to seven. None are receiving hospital-level care.

One of the cases is related to the two cases announced on Saturday. Those two cases were a couple who arrived on a repatriation flight from India. Yesterday’s case is their young child, who the Ministry of Health says is under 2 years old.

The Ministry of Health says that all three are ‘‘doing well’’ at the Jet Park hotel quarantine facility.

The other case is a 59-year-old woman who also arrived from Delhi. She was tested at the Grand Millennium managed isolation facility. She is now in quarantine at the Jet Park hotel along with her partner who has also been tested. The results of that test are yet to come back.

The Ministry of Health says it is following up on the case and will provide an update today.

The woman was tested on her third day of managed isolation as part of the new testing regime. The Ministry of Health says this ‘‘is an example of the new testing regime working as it should’’.

Everyone staying at the Grand Millennium while the couple was there has either already been tested or will be tested as part of the new scheme to test people on their third and twelfth day of managed isolation.

Director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said the country was always expecting to get new cases at the border as Kiwis return home from overseas.

‘‘It is good that the systems are in place to detect these cases. Testing, particularly at the border, will continue to be an important part of our Covid-19 response,’’ Bloomfield said.

There were 5950 tests completed yesterday, bringing the total to 341,117. This was ‘‘a very high’’ number of tests for a Saturday, Bloomfield said.