Today there are five new cases of COVID-19 - made up of three new confirmed cases and two new probable cases – from 6,777 tests completed yesterday.
This is the same number of new cases as reported yesterday. Of the new cases reported today, four are linked to existing clusters, and one is still under investigation.
Three of today’s cases are linked to aged residential facilities - one in Auckland and two in Christchurch and another case is linked to a smaller Waikato cluster.
One of the Christchurch cases attributed to a cluster today is the patient who passed away yesterday morning. The combined total of tests undertaken to date are 115,015.