WELLINGTON, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand confirmed one new community case of COVID-19 in Auckland on Friday.
The new case has an epidemiological link to an existing case and is associated with the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship bereavement events group in Auckland, according to the Ministry of Health.
There are a number of inter-related cases and contacts who may have been involved with both the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship sub-cluster, and the bereavement sub-cluster, the ministry said in a statement.
There are currently three people in hospital with COVID-19, with two in ICU.
With Friday's new case and seven additional recovered cases, the total number of active cases is 114. Of those, 39 are imported cases in managed isolation facilities, and 75 are community cases.
The country's total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 is now 1,442, which is the number reported to the World Health Organization, according to the ministry.
New Zealand has been controlling the second wave of COVID-19 starting in August, requiring all transport users except children to use face coverings such as masks on buses. Enditem
