The Ministry of Health is reporting there are no active community cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand today.

There is one new imported case being reported today.

Today's new case of COVID-19 arrived from the United States on October 8, says the Ministry of Health.

The person has tested positive to routine day three testing in managed isolation in Christchurch.

They are now in quarantine.

"Our total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 is 1516, which is the number we report to the World Health Organization," says the Ministry in a statement in their website

"There are seven additional recovered cases today.

"Our total number of active cases is 39 – all imported cases. There are no active community cases of COVID-19."

No one is in hospital with COVID-19 today.

"Yesterday, our laboratories processed 3017 tests, bringing the total number of tests completed to date to 1,005,807."

NZ COVID Tracer

There are now 2,305,781 users registered on NZ COVID Tracer.

The app has recorded a total of 90,543,583 poster scans, and users have created 3,801,018 manual diary entries.