A Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) employee has tested positive for Covid-19, sparking a "thorough clean" to their Auckland office prior to staff returning on Monday. Director of Public Health Caroline McElnay said today there were five new community cases and seven imported cases. The affected office floor would now be given a clean. "MBIE has strict protocols in place developed from MoH guidelines, the office floor has been vacant throughout alert level 3 and a thorough clean will be completed before our employees return under alert level 2." The cases are yet to be epidemiologically linked to the existing South Auckland cluster, but health officials were confident they would be connected.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 28, 2020 01:30 UTC