No staff or patients have returned a positive case after being in potential contact with the cases in Middlemore Hospital. There are fears people testing positive after visiting Middlemore Hospital could be "the tip of a bigger iceberg" of Covid-19 cases circulating in the community. Cabinet is meeting tomorrow to decide on alert level settings for Auckland. "It looks likely that there may be a further delay in coming out of alert level 4. Despite the mystery cases Plank believed our level 4 settings were right - borne out by the solid downward trend in cases over the last week.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 11, 2021 22:58 UTC