The Ministry of Health (MoH) has officially announced the following update on COVID-19:
There are 20 news cases in the community.
More than 61,000 vaccines were administered yesterday.
- Number of new cases identified at the border are three (and one historical)
- Location of new cases are all in in Auckland
- Location of community cases (total) Auckland 905 (342 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (10 of whom have recovered)
- Number of community cases (total) 922 (in current community outbreak)
- Cases infectious in the community Ten (43%) of yesterday’s 23 cases have exposure events
- The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 379; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76.
- Cases in hospital18 (total): North Shore (4); Middlemore (8); Auckland (6)
- Cases in ICU or HDU Four
- Confirmed cases (total) 3,557 since the pandemic began.