Experts are confident Auckland still faces a low risk of community outbreak, despite today's latest Covid-19 case being a "casual plus" contact. The newly-announced case, identified this morning, is a Papatoetoe High School student who was tested for the first time yesterday. The schoolgirl was identified as a casual plus contact of the community cases linked to the February outbreak but had not returned to the school and had been isolating at home. There are 27 locations of interest connected to the latest outbreak in the Papatoetoe area and 1416 casual plus contacts identified. "But that doesn't mean that we're necessarily looking at a serious outbreak at this stage.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 23, 2021 04:05 UTC