New Zealand reported no community cases of COVID-19 and four in managed isolation on Saturday.
The latest figures come as Wellington remains at alert level 2 after a traveller from Sydney tested positive for the virus following a visit to the city last weekend.
It was later confirmed he had the highly contagious Delta variant.
The restrictions are set to remain in place until 11:59pm on Sunday, with Cabinet meeting tomorrow to decide if the alert level will be extended or raised.
The Ministry of Health said 2213 people have been identified as contacts of the Australian traveller. A total of 1420 of those contacts need to isolate until a negative test result at day five, while the remaining people need to isolate for 14 days and have at least two tests.
Of those 2213 total contacts, 1441 have returned a negative result, 764 are either being followed up or are awaiting a test result and the remaining eight have been excluded from testing, the Ministry of Health said on Saturday.
The ministry also said two people who arrived from Australia on Friday are now in a managed isolation facility in Auckland after it was discovered they were ineligible for quarantine-free travel (QFT) to New Zealand.
One person, travelling from the state of New South Wales, transited to Auckland through another Australian port and was detected by Customs officials and transferred to MIQ.
The other traveller is an Australian resident who was cleared by Customs via the e-gates and realised soon afterwards they may not be eligible for QFT. They rang Healthline for advice and have also been transferred to MIQ, the Ministry of Health said.
Auckland Regional Health’s Medical Officer of Health has deemed both passengers as a low public health risk. Both will spend 14 days in managed isolation and undergo standard testing while there.
Australia
Twelve more community cases were recorded in New South Wales. NSW Health said the state acquired 29 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm Friday night, which includes 17 cases that were announced on Friday morning.
NSW's latest numbers come after more than 1 million residents in four local government areas across Sydney were given stay-home-at-home orders on Friday after 22 new community cases were recorded in the state.
The restrictions affect people in Woolhara, Waverley, Randwick and the City of Sydney, and have been put in place for at least a week.
On Saturday, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said it was likely the lockdown would be extended.
"This variant of the virus is contagious and transmissible like no other variant that we've seen, and that is why the New South Wales Government will take any necessary action it needs to take," she said.
"I will confirm that I will be holding a crisis cabinet meeting today to discuss the health advice with my colleagues and senior public servants so that we can advise the community if we need to take any further action."
