Man lands in NZ with virus symptoms

A man in his 40s arrived in New Zealand with Covid-19 symptoms, after travelling from the Philippines through Hong Kong. He was one of two new Covid cases reported by the Ministry of Health yesterday. The man was taken straight to an Auckland quarantine facility, and a test taken on his arrival on Monday returned a positive result. The other new case yesterday was a man in his 50s who arrived in New Zealand on July 14 from Afghanistan via Dubai, the ministry said. The positive test was from a day-12 check, and the man was transferred to an Auckland quarantine facility. The number of active cases of Covid-19 in the country was 23.