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There are 6 new cases of COVID-19 to report today in managed isolation, none in the community.

The first new case arrived on April 2 from India via the United Arab Emirates. This person tested positive at around day 5 routine testing, is a close contact of a case and is now staying in a quarantine facility in Auckland.

The second new case arrived on April 7 from the Philippines via Singapore. This person tested positive at around day 0 routine testing and is now staying in a quarantine facility in Auckland.

The third, fourth, fifth and sixth new cases arrived on April 7 from India via the United Arab Emirates. They all tested positive at around day 0 routine testing and are all now staying in a quarantine facility in Auckland.

The total number of active COVID-19 cases is 95. The total confirmed COVID-19 cases are now at 2,205. This is the number that the Ministry of Health reports to the World Health Organisation.

Testing data is not available for today according to the Ministry of Health release to thisquality. It will be provided within the next update.

There are now 2,777,191 users registered on the NZ COVID Tracer app.

The app has recorded a total of 243,273,592 poster scans. There have also been 9,087,677 manual diary entries recorded so far.

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