There have been 113 new community cases reported in New Zealand today, after more than 200 were reported yesterday.<\/p>\n
Photo: AFP<\/p>\n
There was no media conference today. In a statement, the Ministry of Health said 78 of today's cases are yet to be linked, and there are 645 unlinked cases from the past 14 days.<\/p>\n
It said 109 of today's cases were in Auckland, with three in Waikato and one in Northland.<\/p>\n
There are 74 people in hospital, including five in intensive care. All are in Auckland and the average age is 51.<\/p>\n
Today's figures are almost half the record 206 cases recorded yesterday.<\/p>\n
There was also one new case detected at the border.<\/p>\n
One of today's three cases in Waikato was reported yesterday but was confirmed after the cut off time, so is today officially being added to the case numbers.<\/p>\n
The other two new cases confirmed in Waikato overnight are from Hamilton and torohanga. One was a known contact of previous cases and was already in isolation.<\/p>\n
Both Covid-19 patients in Waikato Hospital yesterday have now been discharged.<\/p>\n
The Ministry said the one new case in Northland is a contact of a case in Kaitaia and has been isolating at home. There have now been 18 cases in the region in the current outbreak.<\/p>\n
There have now been 4352 cases in the current community outbreak and 7095 since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n
There were 33,867 vaccine doses administered yesterday, including 7401 first doses and 26,466 second doses.<\/p>\n
The Ministry said 89 percent of eligible New Zealanders have had their first dose and 78 percent are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n
Official testing sites can be found here.<\/p>\n
Vaccination sites can be found here.<\/p>\n
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