Health authorities have encouraged anyone with coronavirus symptoms to get tested promptly after a Wellington wastewater sample tested weak positive for the virus. Late on Friday, ESR reported the weak positive result from a Wellington wastewater sample. "A follow-up sample yesterday returned a second weak positive result," the Ministry of Health added in today's Covid update. "Based on our experience, it is most likely that the two weak positive results are due to recently recovered cases continuing to shed the virus." A further historical case left a Wellington managed isolation facility the same day the second wastewater sample was taken.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 16, 2021 00:45 UTC