New Zealand records 25 Covid cases amid arrival of foreign fishing crews

Twenty-three cases caught at the border, with two more local transmissions linked to Sunday's port worker case

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New Zealand has recorded 25 new cases of coronavirus, the biggest daily toll the country has reported since the height of its initial outbreak in March and April.

Two were local cases and the rest were discovered at the border, including 18 infections among Russian and Ukraine fishing crews who had arrived on a charter flight from Moscow days earlier.