One of the new cases is in Raglan and the other, a known contact of the Raglan case, is in Hamilton East. The Raglan case was tested on October 1 after feeling unwell. A press conference was not scheduled for today before the Waikato cases popped up. There were 27 new locally acquired Covid-19 cases yesterday, all in Auckland, of which 22 have been linked to known clusters, leaving five unlinked cases. "I would be very concerned if there was a move down to alert level 2 at the moment," said Baker.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 02, 2021 22:08 UTC