Today we have two new confirmed cases, and one new probable case of COVID-19 in New Zealand. However, there is no change to the total number of COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, which remains at 1,451 – the same as yesterday.
The three cases we reported yesterday that had returned from Uruguay have been reclassified as under investigation. They are laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19, but they were possibly already counted in Uruguay’s case total.
They have been deducted from our total while this is confirmed, to prevent double counting of the cases by the World Health Organisation.
Our laboratories processed another new record number of tests yesterday, with 6,480 tests completed. We have now processed 101,277 COVID-19 tests in total.