Two new COVID-19 cases in NZ

There are two new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand.

The NZ Ministry of Health confirmed in a statement that the cases are related to the border as a result of recent travel from the United Kingdom

The NZ Herald reports the cases are connected.

It is thought the two new cases were given special exemption to attend a funeral in New Zealand, TVNZ reports.

Director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield will provide further details about the cases at a media stand up at 3pm.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warned again yesterday that there would be more COVID cases in the future, but hopefully they would only be at the border.

Sahe said she does not want New Zealanders to believe that the battle is over when it is not.

Ardern has previously said she would not rule out the possibility of moving back up alert levels.

Every traveller who arrives into New Zealand on a flight which departs from another country must go into one of two facilities for an isolation period of 14 days.

If a traveller is symptomatic on arrival, they are placed in a quarantine facility for two weeks. If they are not symptomatic on arrival, they are placed in an approved managed isolation facility for two weeks, according to the ministry's website.

Since June 8, all travellers who arrived in the country were tested for COVID-19 at their respective facilities.

A total of 22 people have died as a result of COVID-19 in New Zealand.

The number of cases of COVID has passed eight million across the globe, with 436,000 deaths. The United States alone has had 2.1 million cases and 116,000 deaths.

[Source: NZ Herald]