Today there are 50 new cases of COVID-19 to report - made up of 26 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 24 new probable cases.
There are no additional deaths to report. There are now 282 reported cases which we can confirm have recovered – an increase of 41 on yesterday.
The combined total of confirmed and probable cases in New Zealand is 1210. Today there are 12 people in hospital, including four in ICU – one each in Wellington, Waitemata, Counties Manukau and Southern DHBs.
Two of these ICU patients are in a critical condition. For those cases we have information on, we are still seeing a strong link to overseas travel though this is declining (41%), as well as links to confirmed cases within New Zealand (43%) including those in clusters
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