There are nine new cases of Covid-19 today - one in the "marine engineer cluster" and eight in managed isolation. The other new case was a close contact of the marine engineer who is believed to have tested positive while working on a ship that arrived in New Zealand from overseas. Bloomfield said data from the push notification sent about Auckland pub The Malt - where a contact of the marine engineer visited - showed a very low number of people had signed in. The cluster started when a marine engineer is believed to have been infected while working on a ship and then passed it onto two others. Between the cases, they visited a pub, a gym and a marine supply store before testing positive on Auckland's North Shore.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 22, 2020 23:50 UTC