An Invercargill man whose death is being investigated to see if he is the first New Zealander to die at home from Covid-19 has links to the Bluff wedding cluster of cases of the pandemic disease.
The man, in his 70s died in his Kingswell home on Tuesday evening.
The man was undergoing a post-mortem this afternoon.
Until those results were available, director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield would not say if his death would be added to the national total of nine Covid-19 deaths.
