Wellington City Council spokesman Richard MacLean said the council was speaking with regional public health officials about the city's cases. There were about 8,000 swabs taken at community testing centres and about 16,000 at general practice and urgent care clinics. There were now 13 community testing centres available across Auckland today including three new pop-up community testing centres set up yesterday at Pakuranga, St Johns and Mangere East. "We understand how worried people in our school community will be. Canterbury University Professor Michael Plank told RNZ it was "good news" that a link had been established between the community cases and a returned traveller in MIQ.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 19, 2021 22:41 UTC