Two more community cases of Covid-19 have been announced.
They are siblings of a Papatoetoe High School student confirmed as a positive case earlier on Tuesday.
The Ministry of Health said the siblings are a teenager and an infant. The teenager, who was also, until recently, a student at Papatoetoe High, works at Kmart Botany in east Auckland.
They were at work on February 19 and 20 between 4pm-10pm.
Thirty-one of their colleagues have been identified as close contacts and are self-isolating, the ministry said.
Meanwhile, anyone who visited Kmart Botany at the times the new case was working is considered a casual plus contact.
These are contacts that would have previously been considered casual contacts, but have been upgraded due to the risk of the more transmissible strains of the virus. Those affected by the latest outbreak have the contagious United Kingdom variant.
“If you are a casual plus contact, you are advised to immediately isolate at home and call Healthline on 0800 358 5453 for advice on isolation time frames and testing requirements,” the ministry said in a statement.