Today there are 32 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 22 new probable cases. There are no additional deaths to report. There are now 241 reported cases which we can confirm have recovered.
The combined total of confirmed and probable cases in New Zealand is 1160 – this is 54 more than yesterday. Today there are 12 people in hospital, including 4 in ICU – 1 in Wellington, 1 in Waitemata, 1 in Counties Manukau and 1 in Southern.
1 is in a critical condition. One person has been discharged since our update yesterday. For those cases we have information on, we are still seeing a strong link to overseas travel (42%), as well as links to confirmed cases within New Zealand (41%) including those in clusters we already know about and community