New Zealand PM Ardern Is Self Isolating After Exposure to COVID-19 Positive Case

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern looks on during a press conference for the APEC Informal Leaders' Retreat at the Majestic Centre in Wellington, New Zealand, on July 16, 2021. Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images

WELLINGTON—New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has gone into self-isolation until Tuesday after being deemed a close contact of a person who tested positive for COVID-19, the government said.

The exposure took place on Jan 22 during a flight to Auckland from the town of Kerikeri, the government said in a statement on Saturday, adding that the result of whole genome sequencing was expected the following day.