Photo: Getty ImagesAnother close contact of the Covid-positive Auckland family has tested negative - bringing to 12 the number of close contacts who have tested negative, director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield said today. Thirty-three of them are students and teachers from the high school and nine are non-high school close contacts. Eleven of these 42 people returned negative tests yesterday, and a 12th - another school test - came back negative last night. More than 3000 people were tested yesterday and the bulk of those results would come back today. Hundreds of people were tested at a pop-up testing station at the school yesterday.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 15, 2021 19:18 UTC