A 63-year-old man has died while staying at the Grand Millennium managed isolation facility in Auckland.
The man had arrived from the Pacific and "displayed no Covid-19 related symptoms during their previous daily health checks," Andrew Milne, the Acting Deputy Chief Executive of Managed Isolation and Quarantine said.
"Our thoughts are with the returnee's family at this sad time."
A Ministry of Health spokesperson said its "assessment at this stage is that, as the person came from a country with no local transmission of Covid-19 and they were symptom-free, this means the case of death is unlikely to be Covid-19-related".
The death is the first to occur in a Ministry of Heath managed isolation or quarantine facility.
The death has been referred to the Coroner.
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