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There are three new cases of Covid-19 to report today in managed isolation and none in the community.

The first new case arrived on April 23 from Pakistan via Qatar. This person tested positive as being a close contact of another case at around day 5 of routine testing and is now staying in a quarantine facility in Auckland.

The second case arrived on April 24 from the United Arab Emirates. This person tested positive at around day 3 of routine testing and is now staying in a quarantine facility in Auckland.

A third reported case arrived on April 27 from Pakistan via the United Arab Emirates. This person tested positive at around day 0 of routine testing and is now staying in a quarantine facility in Auckland.

The total number of active Covid-19 cases is 23 as seven have previously recovered. The total confirmed Covid-19 cases are now at 2,257. This is the number that the Ministry of Health reports to the World Health Organisation.

Laboratories have processed a total of 2,013,539 tests to date. On Wednesday 5,340 were processed while the seven-day rolling average up to yesterday is 3,654.

On the NZ COVID Tracer app, 2,802,149 users are now registered, recording a total of 258,138,805 poster scans. There have also been 9,660,862 manual diary entries done so far.

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