Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson and Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield give an update on the Covid-19 outbreak. Contact tracers are urgently investigating four mystery Covid-19 cases where officials don’t know how or when the person caught the virus. Experts say the unsolved cases could keep Auckland in lockdown. University of Otago epidemiologist Michael Baker, who advises the Government on Covid-19, said there needed to be a number of days with no unlinked cases, from whom a new cluster could form, before Auckland could leave lockdown. “We continue to work closely with Auckland Regional Public Health to investigate fully the unlinked cases.”The two unlinked cases from the same household had also created new locations of interest.

Source: Stuff September 10, 2021 04:41 UTC