Dr Ashley Bloomfield addressing the media this afternoon confirmed three new Covid-19 case today.
The first person is in her 30s who arrived to New Zealand from Peru, was is in managed isolation facility at Ibis Hotel in Rotorua.
She is now being moved into quarantine facility at Jet Park Hotel.
She earlier travelled to Rotorua via a bus; the bus driver - who was wearing PPE - will also be isolated and tested.
Everyone who was rtavelling on the bus to Rotorua with her is being followed up and tested.
The second and third person came from New Delhi on same Air India flight on June 20, and were in managed isolation at Commodore Hotel in Christchurch.
They will be transferred to a special quarantine section of their hotel.
The second is in her 70s and the third person in his 30s. They were tested positive on Day 3 of compulsary isolation period.
Total confirmed cases in New Zealand is 1169 as reported to the World Health Organisation.
A total of 10,436 tests were done yesterday, that makes total tests done so far to 368,432.
Two women who travelled from the UK last week are now considered recovered.
Dr Bloomfield said the Ministry of Health now has a person at Auckland Airport talking to passengers as they arrive in the country, obtaining health details like their NHI number.
"I'm really pleased our team has been able to put that in place, it's quite a manual process and it's got someone from the DHB out at the airport and we are working with customs aviation security to be able to get a data feed of those people who, once the doors have closed (on the aircraft in the country they're travelling from) and once it's landed... we can match (the data) automatically," Dr Bloomfield said.
Dr Bloomfield said two people who received compassionate exemptions are still awaiting test results and that enforcement services are working with the Ministry to follow up on one other person.
In other recent Covid-19 news, testing for every person with a cough or cold symptom has been dropped by the Ministry of Health (MOH).
Under new MOH testing guidelines, doctors and testing clinics, are urged to instead focus on those at highest risk.
MOH figures also show it has been unable to reach at least 58 percent of the people who left managed isolation untested between 9 and 16 June.
Yesterday, one new case of the novel coronavirus was reported in New Zealand, taking the number of active cases to 11.
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