New Zealand has a new case of Covid-19 transmission in the community, Ministry of Health officials have confirmed. The news will be greeted with dismay in the country, which has not had a case of transmission in the community since February, and has so far avoided incursions into the community from the more-transmissible Delta variant. The case was detected in Auckland, and health officials have not yet established a link between the case and the border or managed isolation facilities. Public health units were conducting interviews with the infected person for contact tracing. Epidemiologist and public health expert Prof Michael Baker said the latest case was “almost certainly” the Delta variant.

Source: The Guardian August 17, 2021 04:09 UTC