There are 83 new cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand made up of 78 new confirmed cases and 5 probable cases. This is as at 9.00 am this morning.
There are 50 individuals that we can confirm have recovered. We have 12 people in hospital with COVID-19. There are 3 in Wellington Regional Hospital, 1 in Wairau Hospital (Blenheim), 1 in Nelson Hospital, 2 in Whangarei Hospital and 1 each in Auckland, Waikato, Taranaki, Dunedin and Greymouth hospitals.
There are two people in ICU, one on a ventilator. For privacy reasons we won’t be providing other details on these patients.
Our laboratories are working to process and report test results as quickly as possible. Taken over a seven-day period, our average daily test number is 1613.