This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Official Information request 'Country of departure for persons testing positive in NZ MIQ Facilities'.
Appendix One: Positive cases of COVID-19 in Managed Isolation and Quarantine facilities
Travel history is a snapshot from the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) EpiSurv 
database. ESR operates EpiSurv, the national notifiable disease surveillance database, on behalf of the 
Ministry. EpiSurv collates notifiable disease information on a real-time basis from New Zealand’s Public 
Health Services (PHS). Data collected by the PHS includes case demographics, clinical features and risk 
factors (including travel history). People are asked to provide the last three countries they have been in and 
this information is recorded in EpiSurv. EpiSurv is a ‘living database’ and information about individual cases 
will often change as additional information is gathered.
Data from 1 August 2020 - 1 Feburary 2021
First country of embarkation
Cases
Afghanistan
Less than 5
Australia
Less than 5
Austria
Less than 5
Bahrain
Less than 5
Bangladesh
Less than 5
Brazil
Less than 5
Canada
Less than 5
Chile
Less than 5
China, People's Republic of
Less than 5
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
Less than 5
Croatia
Less than 5
Czech Republic
Less than 5
Denmark
Less than 5
Ethiopia
5
Finland
Less than 5
France
Less than 5
Germany
7
Greece
Less than 5
Hungary
Less than 5
under the Official Information Act 1982
India
96
Indonesia
Less than 5
Iran
Less than 5
Iraq
Less than 5
Ireland
Less than 5
Italy
9
Released 
Japan
5
Jordan
Less than 5
Kazakhstan
Less than 5
Kenya
Less than 5
Korea, Republic of
Less than 5
Laos
Less than 5
Malaysia
6
Mexico
6
Netherlands
11

Appendix One: Positive cases of COVID-19 in Managed Isolatioon and Quarantine facilities
Netherlands Antilles
Less than 5
Northern America 
Less than 5
Pakistan
16
Peru
Less than 5
Philippines
15
Poland
Less than 5
Qatar
Less than 5
Romania
Less than 5
Russia
48
Seychelles
Less than 5
South Africa
16
Spain
Less than 5
Sweden
Less than 5
Switzerland
Less than 5
Turkey
5
Ukraine
14
United Arab Emirates
11
United Kingdom
107
United States of America
70
Unknown
6
Uzbekistan
Less than 5
Vietnam
Less than 5
Zimbabwe
Less than 5
Total
529
under the Official Information Act 1982
Released