WELLINGTON: New Zealand health officials said on Sunday they were investigating what they said was probably the country's first community coronavirus case in months in a woman who recently returned from overseas.
It is not known how the woman was infected or whether the infection is new, Bloomfield said. But since the woman tested positive several days after being released from quarantine and has been at home, the authorities are treating it as a"probable community case". The country of 5 million people has had only 1,927 confirmed cases. But with the pandemic raging globally, more people are returning to New Zealand with infections, including the new variants, raising concerns the virus may spread in the community again.
"This is a reminder to all of us that the pandemic continues and that this is a tricky virus," he said.Social media users rushed to express concern and frustration about the new case, with one user describing the reactions on Twitter as a"collective groan".
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