The Ministry of Health (MoH) has officially announced the following update on COVID-19: 

There are 83 new cases of Covid-19 in the community today (Sunday August 30).

Eighty-two cases are in Auckland, and one is in Wellington, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.

This brings the total number of cases in the community outbreak to 511. The total number of community cases in Auckland is 496, and 15 in Wellington.

There are also two new cases in managed isolation facilities.

Of the current community cases, 34 cases are in hospital. Thirty-two are in a stable condition on a ward and two cases are in a stable condition in ICU.

Following detection of Covid-19 in samples collected from Christchurch on August 21, 23 and 25, samples were collected from five sites within Christchurch on August 26. These have now returned negative results and further samples are being collected for analysis today and tomorrow from a further nine sites across Christchurch.

There are no new unexpected detections to report from wastewater sampling.

As of 10am today, 32,771 individual contacts have been identified.

Yesterday 77,965 Covid-19 vaccines were administered around the country. More than 3.28 million doses of the vaccine have been administered to date; more than 2.1 million are first doses and more than 1.14.