One new Covid-19 case in Hawke's Bay has taken the regional total to 44.
Medical Officer of Health Dr Nick Jones said the new case, a female healthcare worker at Gladys Mary Care Home in Napier, had never had any symptoms.
The case came to light following surveillance testing initiated by the DHB's Public Health unit of all staff members at the care home and would also be linked to the Ruby Princess significant cluster.
On Sunday a male healthcare worker from the home was also confirmed with Covid-19, despite displaying no obvious symptoms.
Jones said close contacts of Tuesday's confirmed case had been followed up and there was no wider risk to the public.
Public Health had also met with residents at a holiday park where the man had been living and precautionary testing of residents would be completed today.
"Thanks to this additional testing we have detected Covid-19 cases that would have otherwise gone unnoticed and we continue to work very closely with Gladys Mary Care Home on further testing.
"It is possible that the two recently detected cases were infected some time ago and are no longer infectious. However, it is clear that we cannot assume there are no active transmission chains and we must therefore remain vigilant and follow strict hygiene and physical distancing measures when exiting our household bubbles, particularly given we have now moved into Alert Level 3," he said.
Nationally there had been 10 straight days where the number of new cases has been in single digits.
On Monday there were five new cases, and with a number of probable cases being reclassified, the total number of cases stood at 1469.
With 1180 recoveries, there were 270 active cases across the country.
Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said more cases would continue to pop up under the elimination goal.
