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From earlier today – CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on the skeleton crew running the West Wing’s press areas – less than a month from the election:
Confirming @maggieNYT, a fourth press aide has also tested positive. So now it’s four press aides and the press secretary.
Charlotte Graham-McLay reports for the Guardian:
New Zealand appears to have, for a second time, stamped out the domestic spread of Covid-19, with no active cases recorded in the community on Wednesday, health officials said.
The country recorded three new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday, all diagnosed in travellers returning to New Zealand who remain in quarantine at government-run isolation facilities. Strict rules govern who can enter New Zealand and all travellers must stay in managed quarantine for two weeks, during which they are tested twice for the virus.
There are 37 cases of the coronavirus at the isolation hotels.
But as of Wednesday, the Ministry of Health said in a statement, there are no longer any active cases in the community after the last remaining sufferers recovered.
New Zealand declared itself free of Covid-19 in June, but an August outbreak in Auckland sent the largest city back into a strict lockdown. Restrictions have gradually eased on the city and will be lifted entirely on Thursday.
After entering a stringent, early lockdown in March and April when New Zealand had recorded comparatively few cases, the country has seen 25 deaths from the virus.
There have been 1,505 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand. One person is in hospital.
