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New Zealand Scrambles to Trace COVID-19 Cases as Numbers Grow

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   Officials in New Zealand say they have now identified 13 new cases of
   COVID-19 in Auckland, the nation's largest city, all directly related
   to the four cases from the same household reported Tuesday.

   New Zealand Ministry of Health Director-General Ashley Bloomfield told
   reporters in Wellington Thursday that authorities are treating the 13
   cases as a cluster. He said they have learned clusters continue to
   grow, and he fully expects there will be additional cases.

   He said all those in the cluster are in isolation and they, along will
   all other all confirmed cases, will be managed in a quarantine
   facility.

   Until those new cases, the country had gone 102 days without a locally
   transmitted COVID-19 case. An additional case is a returned
   international traveler who is in a quarantine facility.

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