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There are two new cases of COVID-19 to report today in New Zealand. The new cases are reported all-in managed isolation. There are no new cases in the community today. 

Of the two new cases, both arrived from India on September 26. They have been in managed isolation and returned a positive test result of COVID-19 on day 12, they have both been transferred to Auckland’s quarantine facility.

The total number of active COVID-19 cases is currently 41 – which are all imported cases. There are no active community cases. 

There is one person that remains in hospital on a ward for COVID-19 at Middlemore hospital today.

The three new cases bring a total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 1,510. This is the number that the Ministry of Health reports to the World Health Organisation.

Laboratories yesterday processed 5,597 tests, since the new results after duplicates, the revised number of total tests processed to date is at 992,141.

There are currently 2,301,800 users registered on NZ COVID Tracer App.

The App has recorded a total of 87,698,279 poster scans so far.

Users have created 3,704,195 manual diary entries in the App.

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