Today there are 48 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 41 new probable cases. There are no additional deaths to report. There are now 156 reported cases which we can confirm have recovered.
The combined total of confirmed and probable cases in New Zealand is 1039. This is 89 more than yesterday. Today there are 15 people in hospital, including 3 in ICU – 1 in Wellington, 2 in Auckland.
2 are in a critical condition. From our lab numbers, we can report a 7 day rolling average of tests at 2448 per day. The total of lab tests to date is 36,209 and 3093 tests were carried out yesterday.
As mentioned yesterday, we know we have capacity to do the number of tests needed. For those cases we have information on, we are still seeing a strong link